Wutopia Lab wraps visitor centre with striped wall inspired by nautical shirts
Shanghai-based architecture studio Wutopia Lab has revamped a tourism company's entrance office into the Striped House visitor centre in Qinhuangdao, China. More
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Selldorf Architects' visitor centre will open Forbidden City palace to public for first time
Selldorf Architects will design the Qianlong Garden Interpretation Center within a palace of the Forbidden City in Beijing, China, which has never been opened to the public. More
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Titan reinstates visitor centre at George Clemenceau's coastal home
French architecture firm Titan has built a sand-coloured concrete pavilion to welcome visitors to the former home of French prime minister Georges Clemenceau, in western France. More
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Welcome centre for Quebec heritage site rises from the landscape
A stone-filled gabion wall runs along one side of this green-roofed visitors pavilion by architect Anne Carrier, which emerges from a slope at a heritage site in Canada. More
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Dinosaur fossil park in Texas gains rust-coloured visitor centre by Lake Flato
American firm Lake Flato used tough materials like weathering steel to create an off-grid educational facility for Big Bend National Park, known for its dinosaur skeletons. More
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Tramway Gas Station by Frey and Chambers is a modernist gatehouse for Palm Springs
Palm Springs Modernism Week kicks off today, and we're taking a closer look at some of the city's best mid-century buildings to coincide with the event. First up is the Tramway Gas Station, designed by architects Albert Frey and Robson Chambers to mark the entrance into the modernist mecca. More
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Staggered glass walls front visitor centre at Louisiana plantation house
New Orleans firm Trahan Architects has completed a visitor centre for an 18th-century plantation in Louisiana, using translucent glazing to blur views of occupants from the outside "like an impressionist painting". More
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COBE designs harbourside brewery for Stavenger that invites visitors to eat and swim
Danish firm COBE has unveiled plans for a craft brewery in Stavanger, Norway, featuring a harbour bath, a street-food market and a huge rooftop vegetable garden – all framed by a network of wooden arches. More
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Foster + Partners' Apple Park Visitor Center opens to the public
The visitor centre designed by Foster + Partners as part of Apple's new California headquarters has welcomed its first guests. More
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BIG completes Lego visitor centre shaped like a stack of building blocks
Bjarke Ingels' firm BIG has unveiled its new visitor centre for toy company Lego – a stack of huge building blocks, featuring brightly coloured patios that are home to a submarine, a shark and a camel. More
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Tourist centre perches above limestone canyon in Guizhou Province
This tourist centre by Chinese studios 3andwich Design and He Wei Studio stands on a platform facing out over a deep limestone canyon in Anlong County in China's Guizhou Province. More
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Chicago Architecture Foundation plans move to Mies van der Rohe-designed tower
The Chicago Architecture Center will take over a space inside a riverfront building by modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, which will be designed by US firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill and is set to open summer 2018. More
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Office III builds simple open-air welcome centre on Governors Island
US studio Office III has constructed a visitors' centre for Governors Island in New York City using marine-grade plywood and cedar decking. More
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Studio Maks and Junya Ishigami create three-pronged visitor centre for Dutch park
Three intersecting glass corridors sweep outwards from a sunken, triangular-shaped visitors centre designed by Studio Maks and Junya Ishigami + Associates for Park Vijversburg in the Netherlands. More
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Reiulf Ramstad's kiln-inspired learning centre will celebrate Denmark's farming culture
Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter has unveiled plans for a new agricultural and baking education centre in Denmark's Jutland region, which will feature teaching spaces skylit by a pair of kiln-shaped forms. More
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Henry Moore Foundation celebrates 40th anniversary with renovation of the artist's former home
Hugh Broughton Architects has added a new visitors centre and an oxidised-steel extension to the Henry Moore Studios and Garden in Hertfordshire – the site of the artist's former home. More
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New photographs reveal Snøhetta's Lascaux IV Caves Museum in southern France
These photographs capture the jagged roofline of the museum that Snøhetta has designed at the Lascaux Caves in France, to frame a huge replica of some of the world's most famous prehistoric cave paintings. More
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Dorte Mandrup adds thatched wing to Wadden Sea visitor centre in Denmark
Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter paired thatch with blackened wood for this extension to a visitor's centre on the Wadden Sea mud flats in Denmark. More
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Dark cedar boards shroud Quebec visitors centre by Anne Carrier
Quebec architecture firm Anne Carrier Architecture has completed a visitors centre in the Mont Orford National Park, built using a wooden structure that nestles into the landscape. More
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Álvaro Siza's Alhambra project scrapped
Álvaro Siza's plans for a new entrance and visitor centre at the historic Granada palace the Alhambra have been rejected. More
