Malta's capital, La Valletta, has had RPBW design, the team of architects led by Renzo Piano, for the reorganization of the entrance to the city. The project is divided into four different interventions that seek to reinforce the urban fabric and…
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Reorganization of the entrance to La Valletta by Renzo Piano. Photograph © Michael Dénance
Bernard Tschumi designs a new Concert Hall and Arts Center associated to Le Rosey International Boarding School. With capacity for 900 spectators, the new building brings modernity and technology to a natural and nineteenth-century panorama.,…
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Aerial view of the Campus. Le Rosey Concert Hall by Bernard Tschumi. Fotograph © Iwan baan
Since the beginning of the 20th century, the Parish Hall played a crucial role in the Juncal community’s socio cultural life: nursery, community dining room, school, cinema and theather concert hall. These different types of appropriation created…
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View of living room from the stage. Renovation and extension of Juncal’s Parish Hall by Jordana Tomé y Victor Quaresma, Atelier de Arquitectura. Photograph © Luís Ferreira Alves
The historical and political heritage of Gdansk is the starting point for the design of the new Shakespearean Theatre by Renato Rizzi. The duality of its elements, open against closed or the inside against the exterior, define the proposal of the…
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Gdansk Shakespearean Theatre by Renato Rizzi. Photography © Matteo Piazza
The Seville Congress Center needed to incorporate a new auditorium and increase its exhibition space. The expansion project was entrusted to Seville architect Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra (National Architecture Award of Spain 2005), and this book…
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Seville Convention Center by Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra. La Fabrica
Barozzi / Veiga designs an abstract and simple volume which houses all the necessary program for the new Philharmonic Hall in Szczecin. Perceived as a light element, the building is perfectly integrated in its urban context through a glass façade…
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Philharmonic Hall in Szczecin by Barozzi Veiga. Photography © Simon Menges
A new concert hall, the Philharmonie de Paris, finally opens today, Wednesday, January 14th. The new concert hall wants to be a different kind of classical-music venue. Designed by the star architect Jean Nouvel to symbolize the end of the “eternal…
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Inside rendering. Philharmonie de Paris by Jean Nouvel
The open, international design competition for the museum buildings to be built in the Városliget (City Park), to be completely renewed by 2018, has been closed.

Based on the decision of the 11-member jury of prominent Hungarian and…
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Winter view. Hungarian Music by Sou Fujimoto. Imgae courtesy of Liget Budapest
Munich-based Peter Haimerl Architektur designed the 500 sqm concert hall for the small village of Bailbach, in the Bavarian woods, Germany. The concert hall is one of three buildings in this project by the German firm to revitalise the village…
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The competition of Le Maillon was won in April following the idea to build a theater which, as a city; could evolve, change, transform itself as time goes by and at the will of the users., full_html
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Le Maillon Theatre by LAN architects. Image courtesy of LAN architects