Museum design: The Wing Luke Asian Museum, in Seattle's Chinatown International distric

The Wing Luke Asian Museum, in Seattle's Chinatown International distric, designed by Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects. This Museum has been built to meet the art and neighbourhood need of social center and exhibit spaces for art and performances of surrounding neighbourhood, as well as attracting interest of Asian culture.

This design was formely a 1910 multi story building for social center for Chinese, Japanese and Filipino immigrants. Using timber and steel as main building materials, it preserves the character and scale of the building.

Santiago Calatrava's Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, built in 1996, but still one of the most photogenic building in the world

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If there are few buildings in this world that will look good in Google streetview, this is one of them, and luckily google car was able to be close enough thanks to the Poente de Monteolivete, a street that is in the middle of the two very interesting building complex. A very monumental building by Santiago Calatrava; Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències. This is a museum of arts in Valencia, Spain. Despite its structural genius, Calatrava design a building that is photogenic from every side of the building complex.



The "city" is made up of the following, usually known by their Valencian names:
El Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía — Opera house and performing arts centre
L'Hemisfèric — Imax Cinema, Planetarium and Laserium
L'Umbracle — Walkway / Garden
El Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe — Science museum
L'Oceanogràfic — Open-air oceanographic park
Surrounded by attractive streams and pools of water, it and the surrounding areas of the "city" are typically used as a relaxing place to walk day or night, with an open air bar outside El Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe during the evening (especially during events).

Mobile Performance Venue - Mobile Building that can be put everywhere

on grass...


on water...


on dessert...

The first time I saw this design... It was really interesting because it can stand everywhere and mobile too.

This was posted in Pushpullbar forum, by Jimmern, a PushPullBarian, and an architect in Various Architect, Oslo, Norway. He said:

The following design principles have driven the development of the concept:

• Create a unique, iconic, and sculptural object to house the Identity Of The Soul performance and represent Arts Alliance Productions worldwide
• Design a calm inner space that will enhance the experience of the performance
• Create an exciting and inviting exterior in contrast to the inner surfaces and spaces
• Create a lightweight mobile venue that can be transported in standard shipping containers with quick erection time and set-up onsite
• Design a flexible solution that would suite different locations, sizes, and types performances
• Use durable materials, long lasting with repairable and replaceable parts where possible

Which I think was quite outstanding design. Congratulation!
Visit the complete explanation about this design here.

Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach am Neckar, Germany

via building.co.uk:

The museum designed by David Chipperfield Architect won the RIBA Stirling Prize.

The museum brings together, for the first time since reunification, texts from a variety of German authors which had previously been dispersed in former East and West Germany.

The judges said: “This is a building that is simultaneously rich and restrained, a trick Chipperfield pulls off as well as any architect working today.

“The architect's control and discrimination in the choice of materials has by now become a signature but above all it is in the handling of the 'difficult whole' that the building excels.”

The judges added: “You can see that every penny spent has been carefully considered but that the right way to do things has always been chosen over the cheapest.

“Since the end of the war Germany has been sensitive to matters concerning the neo-classical in architecture. Had it been submitted a decade or two earlier it would surely have been eliminated for its formal manner.”

Museum of Liverpool

The museum of Liverpool at a riverside site, is a museum designed from a winning proposal that will display pop and contemporary culture of Brittain.

Ulster Museum Building

See the development of Ulster Museum Building with the proposal included in the website. The building is said to be in connection with traditional style. Yet it looks very contemporary design.