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Thursday, August 5, 2010

Ashmolean Museum of Art Archaeology

New building
The new building consists of six floors — the new exhibition space, the new educational centre, studios for storage of artefacts and a terrace on a roof where it is located by cafe.

Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology by Rick Mather Architects

The project combines two-level and one-storeyed exposition spaces which are connected by rulers of paths and two central ladders. Light a well are located along the edges of a building, allowing to use possibility of natural illumination.

Ashmolean Museum it is constructed in 1683 year and is the oldest museum in Britain. The project of expansion of a museum has been developed in 1999 year.
Ashmolean Museum
Exhibition space
Museum of Art
Museum in Britain
The new building is attached to the central case of a museum, work of architect Charles Robert Cockerell of 1895, initially intended for placing there university, but later, in 1894 year, given to a museum.

Enormous exhibition space

Total area of the new project — 10,000 sq. m. from which 4,000 sq. m. are an exhibition space. In the first week end, after complex opening, the museum was visited by 22,000 visitors.

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Park of the world and United Nations monument

Globe project

The project of Park of the World has been initiated by a municipal government of the city of Chungju in honour of that now the Secretary general of the United Nations is the native of this city, Ban Ki-Moon. Having stretched on river Namhangang coast, the project becomes the new city centre.

UN Memorial Hall

The building in the form of an ellipse, the maximum diameter — 60 metres becomes United Nations monument. In a building of 8 floors + a basement floor. In the centre — an audience on 1,500 places, and also additional conference halls. From an audience the fine kind on Tangeumdae Natural Park will open.

New city centre

Peace Park

192 apple-trees

Rising up a spiral, the building becomes the house for an exhibition in which the history of the United Nations since 1945 till today will speak. The person who is the centre of interest of missions of the United Nations, will be integrated into architecture and appearance of "globe". The building will be located in the centre of a garden from 192 apple-trees which number is equal to number of the states which are members of the United Nations.