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Project • By kousou • Museums

“Oyane-San” - Shikoku Mura Entrance

On the northern tip of Shikoku Island surrounded by the Seto Inland Sea is Mt. Yashima, a peninsula with historical significance for Japan. This scenic locale hosts Shikoku Mura, a leading open-air architectural museum dedicated to preserving and showcasing traditional houses from the Shikoku region. Our challenge was to redesign its entrance, transforming it into a new focal point complete with information spaces, ticketing, restrooms, and a shop—all while symbolizing renewal. Caption Caption The site was a parking lot elevated above the main access road, loosely connecting a shrine to the east, the museum's udon restaurant within a traditional house (Waraya) to the south, and an old Western-style house (Ijinkan) to the we... More

Project • By OOIIO Architecture • Art Galleries

Exhibition Design for Calder-Picasso

How to design an international exhibition showing the work of two of the most important Art Masters on XXth century, Alexander Calder and Pablo Riuz Picasso. That is a great challenge as architects.  Josefotoinmo OOIIO Architecture team went through this commission with a very clear idea: the artist were already there, the exhibition design must be very discret and specially thinked to enhalce the great art works. Josefotoinmo The decission was to group then into "exhibition sets" and distribute through the Picasso Malaga Museum spaces all the pieces in such a way that the over 300.000 visitors from all around the world that had this exhibition, were able to understand how this two masters worked on concepts like the void,... More

Project • By arkpabi • Museums

MUSEO DEL VIOLINO

The Museum is located in the building of the Art Palace in Cremona. The Violin Museum is a museum of and for the future, is the museum that tells the fascination of a magical tool, mysterious and alluring. An active, partecipated, exciting and engaging museum, born to bring together under one roof the best of the expression "Cremona violin-making". It's mostly know for its collection of string instruments which includes violins, violas, cellos and double basses of renowned violin makers, including Antonio Stradivari and Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù. More

Project • By Ateliers Jean Nouvel • Museums

Louvre Abu Dhabi

Pritzker-prize winning architect Jean Nouvel sought inspiration for the concept of Louvre Abu Dhabi in traditional Arabic architectural culture, and designed Louvre Abu Dhabi as a ‘museum city’ in the sea. Its contrasting series of white buildings take inspiration from the medina and low-lying Arab settlements. In total, 55 individual but connected buildings, including 26 galleries, make up this museum city. The façades of the buildings are made up of 3,900 panels of ultra-high performance fibre concrete (UHPC). The museum design is a collaboration between traditional design and modern construction techniques. The tranquil environment encourages visitors to enjoy the ever-changing relationship between the sun and the dome and betwee... More