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Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, Colorado, USA, 2011 designed by Allied Works Architecture

Through the trees, the structure of the building is visible, consisting of cast-in-place architectural concrete walls with a variety of surface relief and texture. The façade features thin, vertical lines of concrete that project from the building’s surface in a fractured, organic, and random pattern, creating a rich surface that changes in the intense Denver sunlight and forms varied shadows across the building. -- ArchDaily

Source: Chang Kyun Kim archdaily.com

White Block Gallery, Heyri Art Valley, South Korea designed by SsD

A matrix of 3 solid gallery volumes carefully positioned creates 7 additional galleries in a compact but open ended configuration. Designed to showcase global contemporary art from super sized sculpture and paintings to multi-media installations, the spaces are unique in proportion and lighting allowing curators to accommodate new future forms of art and media. -- ArchDaily

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McGee Art Pavilion, Alfred, New York, USA, 2011 designed by ikon.5 architects

The McGee Art Pavilion is an expansion to the School of Art and Design at the New York State College of Ceramics. Designed as a large ceramic container for holding art and light, the pavilion is set on a plaza between two existing campus buildings on the main pedestrian road on the campus, creating a realization of the manufacturing history of Alfred. -- ArchDaily

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Fresach Diocesan Museum, Fresach, Austria, 2011 designed by Marte.Marte Architekten

The public square has been completed by a monolithic block placed on the gently rising land to the northeast. The foundation and main level divide the hermetic shell for the diocese’s church treasures, and bring the large cube into harmony with the scale of the surrounding buildings. -- ArchDaily

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The Lighthouse Young People’s Centre, Birmingham, UK designed by Associated Architects

The site has a strong visual presence in the local area, overlooking a major route into Birmingham city centre. The use of semi-transparent coloured cladding allows the sports hall to be naturally lit in the day and to provide a strong dynamic presence in the area.  In the evening, the use of artificial lighting and feature LED lighting allows The Lighthouse to become the ‘beacon’ within the community. -- ArchDaily

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Matthew Marks Gallery, West Hollywood, California, USA, 2012 designed by ZELLNERPLUS

This is a 3000 square foot, free standing new building for renowned New York art dealer Matthew Marks.

The building was conceived as a monolithic, windowless, 70 x 40 x 32 foot white stucco box. -- ArchDaily

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Mont de Marsan Mediatheque, Place de la Caserne Bosquet, 40000 Mont-de-Marsan, France, 2012 designed by archi5

The Media Library stands in the middle of the Bosquet barracks, and care has been taken to augment the dialogue with the place’s strong architectural whole. With its clean envelope of pure geometric lines, a 197 ft x 197 ft square, the building complies with the classical layout yet contrasts with its austerity by offsetting the system with a corner opening onto the city. Its facades reflect the surrounding barracks like a respectful, deferential mirror. -- ArchDaily

 

Source: KSG Architekten + BDA Feldschnieders + Kister archdaily.com

Research Building DLR SpaceLIFT, Robert-Hooke-Straße 7, Bremen, Germany, 2012 designed by Ksg Architekten + Architekten BDA Feldschnieders + Kister

To its outside the square layout presents itself as a solitary volume with a dense, two storey cubature. Integrating a colonnade on the upper level, the inside opens itself up to its visitors despite the high levels of security. -- ArchDaily

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MuCEM, Marseille, France, 2013 designed by Rudy Ricciotti

First of all a perfect square of 72 m per side, it is a classic plan, Latin, under the control of Pythagoras. Within this square, another of 52 m per side, comprising the exhibition and conference halls identified as the heart of the museum.. -- ArchDaily

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Erasmus Pavilion, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2013 designed by Powerhouse Company + DeZwarteHond

A compact building volume, the positioning of the mass in the center core, a careful orientation of the program toward the sun—combined with the active facade, the solar panels on the roof, the natural ventilation, and flexible zoning transform this transparent building into a low- consumption landmark. -- ArchDaily

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Auditorium Of Bondy & Radio France Choral Singing Conservatory, Bondy, France designed by PARC Architectes

The architecture of the building plays with the aesthetics of the hangar : a very simple square plan and an undulated metal skin. Unlike a traditional hangar, it opens to its context through a series of arches, letting in natural light and views. Inside, every space has a specific acoustics related to its function and its ambiance. -- ArchDaily

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Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, USA, 2014 designed by Shigeru Ban Architects

From the exterior, the museum’s main feature is the basket-weave cladding that covers its two street-facing facades. The slats, “woven” together on-site, are made from a paper-and-resin composite sandwiched between two thin layers of brown okoume wood protected with a UV coating. The density of the weave changes from top to bottom and as it moves away from the corner of the building. Practically, the screen provides shade from the intense Colorado sunlight. Aesthetically, it helps give the museum a craftsy, homemade quality, despite its bulky presence. -- Architectural Record

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Girona Public Library, Girona, Girona, Spain, 2014 designed by Corea & Moran Arquitectura

The square-shaped volume is almost entirely glazed in U-glass punctuated by sections of transparent glass, flooding the interior with a diffuse light especially comfortable for reading while framing views of the surrounding neighborhood. At night the library glows like a giant urban lantern, welcoming everyone to enter and become part of this place for knowledge, culture and community life. -- ArchDaily