Location: Lisbon, Portugal The 25 de Abril Bridge is a suspension bridge connecting the city of Lisbon to the municipality of Almada on the south bank of the Tagus river. To the inaugurated bridge in 1966 a train platform was added in 1999. Because it is a suspension bridge and […]
National Centre for the Performing Arts
Location: Beijing, China The National Centre for the Performing Arts – 219.400 square meter – is located on the Chang’An Avenue in Beijing. The National Centre for the Performing Arts is separated from the Tian An Men Square by The Great Hall of the People. The building houses an opera […]
Museum of the Second World War
Location: Gdansk, Poland Museum of the Second World War is a museum situated on the bank of Radunia Canal which connects to the nearby Motlawa river. The officials decided to build the museum on that location because of its proximity to the historic Polish Post Office and Westerplatte Peninsula, where […]
Sainte Marie De La Tourette
Location: Eveux, France Sainte Marie de La Tourette is a Dominican Order priory in a valley near Lyon, France designed by the architect Le Corbusier and constructed between 1956 and 1960. La Tourette is considered one of the more important buildings of the late Modernist style. It was under the […]
Grande Arche
Location: Paris – La Defense, France A great national design competition was launched in 1982 as the initiative of French president Francois Mitterrand. Danish architect Johann Otto von Spreckelsen (1929-1987) and Danish engineer Erik Reitzel designed the winning entry to be a 20th-century version of the Arc de Triomphe: a […]
Sony Center
Location: Berlin, Germany The Sony Center is a Sony-sponsored building complex located at the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany. It opened in 2000 and houses Sony’s European headquarters. The site was originally a bustling city centre in the early 20th century. Most of the buildings were destroyed or damaged during […]
Fagus Factory
Location: Alfeld, Germany With the commission to design the facade of Carl Benscheidt’s factory building, the Fagus-Werk, Walter Gropius was able to establish himself as an independent architect. Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer, both of whom were once employed in Peter Behrens’s office, turned the shoe last factory in Alfeld […]
Museum Brandhorst
Location: Munchen, Germany The museum designed by architects Sauerbruch Hutton is a new exhibition space for contemporary arts in Munich. Originally conceived with a glass facade, the plans had to be altered because of residents’ complaints. It now features 36.000 coloured bars of ceramics which use 23 different colours and […]
Finlandia Hall
Helsinki, Finland Alvar Aalto was commissioned by the city of Helsinki to design a concert and congress building, the first constructed part of a great central city plan, which Aalto first presented in 1961, and which included a series of cultural buildings aligned along the Toolonlahti bay which penetrates the […]
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
Location: Chuo-ku, Japan The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art is a purpose built municipal art gallery in Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. It was designed by Tadao Ando and opened in 2002. The major collections of the museum are foreign and Japanese sculptures, foreign and Japanese prints, Western-style and Japanese-style […]