haas cook zemmrich STUDIO 2050   Germany   Stuttgart-based haascookzemmrich STUDIO2050 (Martin Haas, David Cook, Stephan Zemmrich) was commissioned to design this center for the preparation of Rapunzel Naturkost's organic food products, in the Bavarian municipality of Legau. The fairy tale pu

Tuñón y Albornoz Arquitectos   Spain   A refined cottage for excursionists helps itself to the local building tradition of solid stonework walls and tiled roofs to blend into a beautiful natural spot in the province of Soria. Clad in panels of black bakelite, a space unfolding around a fi

Foster + Partners   Saudi Arabia   This research and visitor center is devoted to the marine environment and the challenges of conserving the hábitats of the Red Sea. Located in the Triple Bay Marina at Amaala, the scheme of coral forms perforated with skylights is wrapped in prefabri

Neri & Hu Design and Research Office   China   The project for the firm Pernod Ricard captures the dichotomy between two opposed but complementary elements, seeking a balance between architecture and landscape, industry and the visitor’s experience. Surrounded by a winding stream and the majestic

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Norway   The Danish architecture office BIG has designed a factory for the furniture manufacturer Vestre, inserted into a forest near the village of Magnor, in eastern Norway. It has a built area of 7,000 square meters, and takes its name, The Plus, from its

CEBRA Architecture   Denmark   Skamlingsbanken is a lateral moraine that was formed during the last ice age (22,000-25,000 years ago). Belonging to the Danish municipality of Kolding, this visitor center is embedded in the ground, forming another hill in the rolling landscape. Mea

Dorte Mandrup   Denmark   The thorough renovation of the visitor center went hand in hand with an expansion designed to complete one’s experience of the world’s largest unbroken system of intertidal sand and mud flats. The original massing was modified in a way that would mak

gon architects   Spain   The project ‘Stone and Earth’ – drawn up by Gon Architects, the Madrid practice of Gonzalo Pardo Díaz – has won the competition coordinated by the León Institute of Culture for the purpose of building a research center and visitor reception facility

Dorte Mandrup   Greenland   On Greenland’s rugged coastal landscape, a twisted triangular structure offers a point from which to observe the area’s icebergs as well as a hub for residents and visitors alike. Minimizing contact with the ground in order to allow natural surface r

Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter - RRA   Denmark   In the fields of North Jutland, a food education center open to townspeople and visitors alike seeks to celebrate the region’s farming tradition and promote its rich cereal-based culture. Intended as a laboratory for experimentation in the processes

petrjanda/brainwork   United Arab Emirates   The firm of the Czech architect Petr Janda has won the competition to build a visitor center in the Al Wathba Wetland Reserve, located in the United Arab Emirates capital, where flamingos abound. The project seeks to make the building blend into the

Foster + Partners   Switzerland   InnHub La Punt is a new centre for innovation in the heart of the Engadin valley that seeks to bring new visitors together with the local community to increase prosperity, create new jobs, and revitalize local crafts and produce. It is based on the i

IDOM   Colombia   In Dosquebradas, a municipality in Colombia's Risaralda department, stands this mixed-use building, an Idom project directed by Jabier Fernández Sánchez. The region is known for its rich fauna and flora, thanks to varying climates. Encompassing

Trahan Architects   United States   The center, which aims to illustrate the French Creole lifestyle of Magnolia Mound – a plantation established in 1791 along the Mississippi River – is completed with translucent glass profiles that make the building blend with the landscape... [+]

Kengo Kuma   United States   At Portland Japanese Garden, designed by professor Takuma Tono in 1967, the new Cultural Village connects a sequence of buildings to offer a complete and uninterrupted journey from the city to the top of the hill. The ensemble includes a first pavili

Kengo Kuma   China   Yangcheng Lake – located three kilometers from Suzhou in Jiangsu Province – is famous for producing the best mitten crab in China, a seawater crustacean that is considered to be a rare world delicacy. The growing interest in gastronomic tourism has s

Snøhetta   Norway   The Oslo firm Snøhetta has designed a facility to go up on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, near Longyearbyen, which is the capital of the Svalbard Archipelago, in the Arctic Ocean. The Arc, as it will be called, aims to give visitors access to t

X Architects   United Arab Emirates   Distinguished with the 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Wasit Wetland Center in the Emirate of Sharjah is a facility with a marsh, a visitor center, and points from which to birdwatch. The Dubai-based firm X-Architects, headed by Ahmed Al-Al

José María Sánchez García   Spain   The project articulates the ascent through Cerro de la Estrella to the castle that crowns it, in a sequential route that incorporates two new structures: an archaeological plaza and an interpretation center that covers the ruins of the old church...

Archi-Union Architects   China   Based on the combination of vernacular methods and materials and digital techniques, the bamboo village represents a natural, artisanal, and socioeconomic utopia.

Playze Architects   China   The visitor center of the ecological farm is formed by stacking containers, whose surfaces are perforated in accordance with geometric patterns and which are connected to one another by bridges of iron structure.

E2A   Japan   The center frames and offers spectacular panoramic views of the Seto Inland Sea. It rises from the ground in a gesture of respect for the landscape, freeing up the ground floor, and arranging the auxiliary spaces in distinct pieces attached to the ma

David Chipperfield   Japan   On a steep slope of the Hokusetsu Mountains, 40 kilometers north of the city of Osaka, is the cemetery of the town of Inagawa. A monumental flight of stairs that divides the necropolis into two parts and leads to the sanctuary in the highest area mar

Among the thousands of cultural facilities that have enriched China’s tourist infrastructure in the course of the past years, the Wencheng Forest Visitor Center in Xikeng, near the city of Wenzhou, stands out. Carried out by GLA Design, the building

In collaboration with a large multidisciplinary team, the American firm wHY has turned out the winner, among 125 participants, of the competition for the chance to design the Ross Pavilion: a visitor center and café in West Princes Street Gardens, in

El áspero entorno de Arcos de Salinas, el pueblo más meridional de Aragón, pronto estará colonizado con un artefacto ‘cósmico’: el óvalo minimalista y blanco con que el joven colectivo granadino Mytaki acaba de ganar el concurso de ideas para el Cent

Situado en el acceso al Parque Natural de Sierra Nevada, en Granada, junto al río Lanjarón, el Museo del Agua de Juan Domingo Santos adapta como museo las naves del antiguo matadero e incorpora láminas de agua conectadas y abastecidas por la acequia

Situado en el surafricano Parque Nacional de Mapungubwe, el Centro de Interpretación proyectado por el arquitecto de Johanesburgo Peter Rich está inspirado en la arquitectura vernácula, en el paisaje y en la riqueza arqueológica del lugar. El edifici

El estudio de Julio Grijalba, Alberto Grijalba, Paloma Gil, Eduardo Carazo y Víctor Ruiz han completado el Centro de Recursos Ambientales en Valladolid. Construido con materiales reciclados y diseñado para aprovechar las inercias térmicas, el volume

El equipo Qve, formado por José María García del Monte y Ana María Montiel Jiménez, ha inaugurado el Centro de Interpretación de la Naturaleza Ataria en Salburúa, Vitoria; un volumen de dos plantas con un brazo de acero y vidrio que expone al visitan