Architype builds eco-friendly archive for Imperial War Museum's collection
The Imperial War Museum has a new archive in Cambridgeshire, England, called the IWM Paper Store, which is the most airtight building in the world. More
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Concrete exhibition space showcases Bahrain's architectural past and present
Leopold Banchini Architects gave the House for Architectural Heritage in Muharraq, Bahrain, retractable glass walls that open it up to its surroundings. More
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Reiach and Hall's archive of British civil nuclear industry named Scotland's best building
An archive of the UK's nuclear legacy is housed inside this angular structure by Reiach and Hall Architects, which has been named Scotland's best new building by the RIAS. More
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Berlin's Bauhaus-Archiv designed by Walter Gropius for "a vivid encounter with the Bauhaus"
The Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin is next in our Bauhaus 100 series, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the influential school. Featuring a distinctive sawtooth roof, the gallery and archive was envisioned by Walter Gropius but not completed until after his death. More
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Kengo Kuma divides Archives Antoni Clavé with mesh screens dappled with paper pulp
Japanese studio Kengo Kuma and Associates threw paper pulp at expanded-metal panels to produce light-filtering screens evoking artist Antoni Clavé's paintings, at this archive in Paris dedicated to his work. More
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City Archive Delft features brick-relief facade that evokes bookshelves
Office Winhov and Gottlieb Paludan Architects designed a decorative relief pattern that looks like bookshelves for the facade of this archive building in Delft, the Netherlands. More
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Allies and Morrison's Qatar National Archive references traditional coastal watchtowers
The Allies and Morrison-designed Qatar National Archive in Doha, Qatar, is informed by the layout and materiality of the Middle Eastern country's vernacular architecture. More
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Stainless-steel extension to CTLES archive reflects its rural surroundings
This pair of enormous mirrored-steel boxes connected by a glazed bridge were designed by Antonini + Darmon and RMDM, to complement and extend an aluminium-clad archive facility outside Paris. More
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May + Russell's Australian archive building features three-dimensional concrete facades
Slanted panels of precast concrete are positioned to catch the dawn and dusk sunlight that falls on the facades of this archival facility near the Australian capital, Canberra. More
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New Southbank Centre archive by Jonathan Tuckey Design utilises a 1950s shelving system
Architecture studio Jonathan Tuckey Design has created a new archival space for London's Southbank Centre featuring a mid-century shelving system that reflects the building's heritage. More
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Staab Architekten chosen to extend Berlin's Bauhaus-Archiv with "almost frail" design
Berlin architect Volker Staab has won a competition to extend the Bauhaus archive and museum in the German capital, designed by founder Walter Gropius in the 1960s. More
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Museum dedicated to the fairytales of the Brothers Grimm has a stepped roof overlooking Kassel
This limestone-faced museum in the German city of Kassel by Kada Wittfeld Architektur houses the archives of famous literary duo the Brothers Grimm (+ slideshow). More
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Hugh Strange Architects slots architectural archive inside old farmyard barn
British studio Hugh Strange Architects has transformed an agricultural barn in Somerset, England, into a family archive building by inserting a new timber structure within the dilapidated brick and stone shell. More
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Art gallery and archive by Lacaton & Vassal mirrors an old shipbuilding workshop
Paris architects Lacaton & Vassal have designed a translucent structure to house an international art collection that is a mirror image of the adjoining former shipbuilding workshop (+ slideshow). More
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NRW State Archive, Duisburg by Ortner & Ortner
A house-shaped tower with no windows rises from the roof of an ageing warehouse to create a new archive building for the state of North Rhine Westphalia, Germany, designed by Ortner & Ortner of Germany and Austria. More
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State archive of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Bavaria by GMP Architekten
Copper walls will gradually change colour from dark grey to rich brown on the exterior of this church archive in Nuremberg, Germany, by Hamburg office GMP Architekten (+ slideshow). More
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Britten-Pears Archive by Stanton Williams
Music manuscripts and recordings of the late British composer Benjamin Britten are held within a temperature-controlled concrete chamber at this archive building in Suffolk, England by architecture firm Stanton Williams (+ slideshow). More
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New National Archives of France by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas
Pools of water separate offices from archives at a new building for the National Archives of France by Italian architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas (+ slideshow). More
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Haus der Essener Geschichte by Scheidt Kasprusch
Following our recent feature about buildings clad in weathered steel, here's an archive in Essen, Germany, that is clad in Corten. More
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BFI Master Film Store by Edward Cullinan
London studio Edward Cullinan Architects have completed a concrete and steel bunker to store the British Film Institute's entire film collection. More
