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GWWO Architects shares project visualizations of new design for Niagara Falls Visitor Center

2021-04-26T18:43:00-04:00

In collaboration with the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation, Baltimore-based architecture firm GWWO Architects shares their design for the new Niagara Falls State Park Visitor Center. Familiar with museum and visitor center projects, the firm has also completed design projects for the Homestead Heritage Center in Beatrice, Nebraska, the Robinson Nature Center in Howard Country, Maryland, and Port Canaveral Exploration Tower in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

A true spectacle, Niagara Falls attracts over nine million visitors every year to witness the powerful force of 3,160 tons of water flowing over the falls per second. The GWWO design team explains the newly designed center will "offer an immersive experience, both inside and out, taking visitors on a journey through time, spanning the eras of geological formation and human impacts on the falls, bringing to life the many voices and perspectives of those experiencing its beauty and grandeur, and highlight...

Empire State Building unveils new observatory deck entrance just for visitors

2018-08-29T18:01:00-04:00

Thankfully, workers will no longer have to wade through crowds of wayward tourists every day. A new entrance officially opened [Aug. 22] for the famous Midtown supertall, designed to accommodate the large number of visitors and create a more engaging experience. [...] The crown jewel for the new lobby is certainly the introduction of a two-story tall model of the Empire State Building in front of an illuminating blue seamless background.

First glimpse of COBE's LERVIG Visitor Center and Brewery in Norway

2017-12-20T14:07:00-05:00

COBE teamed up with Norwegian brewer LERVIG to design a new 11,000 m2 visitor center and brewery in the company's hometown of Stavanger. Located on a former industrial pier in the heart of the city, the forthcoming project is a milestone for LERVIG as they continue to expand their business.

Although breweries tend to be perceived as closed-off facilities, Lervig's new visitor center and brewery wants to embrace the public. The new building will have the brewery at the center, which will be surrounded by the visitor center, a 360-degree public promenade, harbor baths, a public roof garden, and the first street-food market on Norway's west coast.

Image credit: COBE.

“Designed as a series of spectacular wooden arches, a large roof connects all functions of the visitor center and brewery. Drawing on the materiality of the traditional brewery halls and embracing the regions proud tradition of constructing with wood, the complex adds an iconic focal point to Stavanger’s harbour front,” CO...

The Guardian's Rowan Moore reviews the almost-finished Stonehenge visitor centre

2013-12-16T17:42:00-05:00

The architects are Denton Corker Marshall, an Australian practice with an office in London, whose design makes intelligent choices. The coach part is split from the car park, which reduces their combined effect on the landscape, and back-of-house facilities are put in a separate building, a discreet chestnut-clad box, a little distance from the public structure. The latter is, deliberately, as light as the old stones are heavy, with an undulating parasol of a roof propped on skinny steel sticks.