International Architectural Competition | The Yunnan Museum | Kunming Province | Yunnan Province | China | Aedas

The competition design for the Yunnan Museum draws on the best ideas from all over the world but always remembers its home, speaking about past, present, and future in the many voices of Yunnan Province. The Museum will display a broad range of collections – from fossils to contemporary art – in a new 50,000 m2 building that will provide a pivotal cultural, educational, and social focus for the entire region..........more

The Tolerance City | Urban planning of the H + area | Helsingborg | Sweden | Adept Architects

The inherent wishes for proximity to water, sustainability in both the social and the physical sense of the word, meeting places and diversity have been staple requirements in the preparation of this project. The structure plan is prepared with time as the fourth dimension, with the intention of examining how The Tolerant City might be able to grow, fully formed and yet constantly pointing towards its own continuation – up-dating and transforming– peaceably, but not vapidly. The structure plan has faith in a fixed link between Helsingborg and Elsinore, but does not treat this as a prerequisite........more

Dock Redevelopment | Castle Parc | Swansea | ACME

Castle Parc initiates the redevelopment of the river and northern dock area of Swansea adjacent to the medieval castle in the heart of the city centre. Currently occupied by retail sheds, the scheme seeks to change the occupation and appearance of the site as a city gateway. Historically, the site was the riverbed of river Tawe and the new Castle Parc will treat this space as a green space that retains its public and open character. Inspired by the hilly sandbanks across the shores of Swansea, the project re-creates a landscape visible from the city centre but is treated as a river front from the gateway. Integrated into this green landscape will be a new central urban square surrounded by a wide range of programmes. Retail units, restaurants and cafes, a large format supermarket and a multi-screen cinema are complemented by a new Swansea College, 100 units of student housing and an underground car park for 1400 cars.......more