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Zayed National Museum in Abu Dhabi

the design of the museum aims to combine a highly efficient, contemporary form with elements of traditional arabic design and hospitality to create a museum that is sustainable, welcoming and culturally of its place. featuring a landscaped garden around its base, the museum's display spaces are housed within a man-made mound. the interior conditions are regulated passively through five solar thermal towers, which host the galleries. the towers heat up and act as thermal chimneys, drawing cool air currents throughout the museum. fresh air is captures at the low level and drawn through buried ground-cooling pipes and then released into the museum's lobby. air vents open at the top of the wing-shaped towers taking advantage of the negative

pressure on the lee of the wing profile to draw the hot air out.

foster + partners' designs for the 'zayed national museum' in abu dhabi was revealed by his highness sheikh mohammed bin rashid al maktoum, vice-president and prime minister of the UAE and ruler of dubai and her majesty queen elizabeth II of the united kingdom. conceived as a monumnet and memorial to the late sheikh zayed bin sultan al nahyan, the founding president of the UAE, the museum will be the centrepiece of the saadiyat island cultural district and will showcase the history, culture and more recently the social and economic transformation of the emirates

balancing the lightweight steel structures with a more monumental interior experience, the galleries are anchored by a dramatic top-lit central lobby, which is dug into the earth to exploit its thermal properties and brings together shops, cafes, and auditorium and informal venues for performances. throughout, the treatment of light and shade draws on a tradition of discreet, carefully positioned openings, which capture and direct the region's intense sunlight to illuminate and animate these interior spaces

architect :foster + partners team: norman foster, david nelson, gerard evenden,

toby blunt, marin castle, ross palmer, dara towhidi, karsten vollmer,
barrie cheng, ho ling cheung, sidonie immler, joern hermann, nadrew king,
gemma owen, jillian salter, marilu sicoli, daniel weiss, bram van der wal, simon wing

source: designboom

Building Houses The New Glasgow Riverside from Zaha Hadid

Building Houses

Glasgow

Zaha Hadid Architects has finished the architectural project of a museum of transport the Glasgow Riverside (Scotland, UK). The transport museum represents 7,000 sq.m. for various old transports, and also: antique shops, showrooms and educational centers.

Museum in Glasgow

Glasgow Riverside

Transport Museum

Showrooms

Cafe shop

Riverside Museum Opening: 21st June 2011, Glasgow, UK

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Building Houses The Museum Project from the Dutch Architects

Building Houses

Future building

China Comic and Animation Museum — the project of a museum of comics and the animation, the won competition on the best offer for Hangzhou's Chinese street.

The Unusual Architectonic Project

The futuristic project of a museum consists of eight volumes which expressive form simulates hypertext links accompanying comics. However it would be desirable to emphasise that, thanks to professionalism of the Dutch architects, the laconic modern architecture causes association with huge bird's eggs.

30,000 sq. m. of the total area given to territory of a museum are provide a park complex: the public areas, the library, three cinemas, many showrooms & boutiques, conceptual hotel, and the interactive exhibition center.

The new museum are consolidating developing tendencies of the modern art and entertainments in which the two-dimensional motive of the links results visitors in a 3D fantastic reality.

Unusual Architectonic Project
Modern Art
Interactive Exhibition Center
Architectural project

It's supposed that China Comic and Animation Museum will presented as a new sign of Hangzhou city with original Chinese character. Each of eight museums offers programs various and independent from each other, nevertheless, interconnected among themselves and having to circular survey of a museum.

In 2012 inhabitants of Hangzhou and numerous visitors of the Chinese mega-city can see personally an embodiment of a courageous architectonic plan of experts from architectural studio «MVRDV».

Comic and Animation Museum (Hangzhou, China)

Hangzhou City
3D-reality
Animation museum

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Interior Decoration How the Academy of sciences in California looks?

Interior Decoration

California Academy

New building California Academy of Sciences was designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano. The building literally has opened one of these days for visitors.

The building structure in many parts is transparent, visually uniting with Gold Park it is completely not similar to the traditional concept of a museum, with blank walls and the blacked out premises. Necessary degree of blackout manages to be created thanks to a canopy on which solar panels are placed.

Academy of Sciences

Ecological stability of a building became key aspect for designers

In a building two walls of the previous building, construction of 1934 are kept. In the project the planetarium, tropical wood and an aquarium, some expositions for several collections of Academy has lodged.

Previous building

New building

Tropical wood

Microclimate

New building California Academy of Sciences

The planetarium and sphere in which the microclimate of tropical wood is created, are placed in two big spheres which roof is outside covered by greens. Visitors can even walk on this artificial landscape, the truth, only on a certain footpath.

From green counters are used: circular system of heating; a roof as an insulator and a heater; use of high-quality glass for facades.interior decoration