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Once a department store, the Gërmia building is one of the most iconic modernist buildings in the city of Prishtina. The place was chosen as the site for a concert hall project, which would create a new landmark for Kosovo. The existing 1970s structure holds a significant place in the collective memory of Prishtina’s citizens; therefore, the competition required the preservation of the existing architecture. Kengo Kuma and Associates winning design refurbishes the existing architecture and articulates the different elements of the program through the addition of a foyer canopy.
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Jean Nouvel, the 2008 Pritzker Prize winner, has his project The Artists’ Garden under construction in Qingdao, China. The architect aims to create a poetic space for artists and those who are passionate about art, a place where emotional responses to seeing the sea can be shared, a great central garden, with fishermen and their boats, a small creek, parasols, and a rectangular harbour. The museum needs to be flexible, but it should also remain a museum. Jean Nouvel proposes to link up several large rooms, extremely well-identified in the world of museography. He also suggests an ‘outside-inside’ promenade that will travel through the museum’s main rooms along the water’s edge and among the trees, with carefully chosen and controlled views over the sea and deep into the undergrowth. He proposes a clearly identifiable line that will align several buildings of contrasting characters.
8. Hotel Green Solution House (GSH), Rønne, Denmark, 3XN and GXN
Denmark’s first climate-positive hotel will be built, clad and insulated using wooden materials. The designers upcycled waste products from the offcut construction to create furniture and surfaces.
9. The Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, Egypt, Heneghan Peng Architects
Set to become the largest archaeological museum in the world, the Grand Egyptian Museum will house artifacts of ancient Egypt including the complete Tutankhamun collection. Heneghan Peng Architects’ design refers to the mathematical precision that define The Pyramids to create a monumental wall made up out of large and small triangles and an undulating metal mesh roof.