The Jewish Museum in Berlin

Open view
"What is important is the experience you get from it. The interpretation is open" with this fact, the architect Daniel Liveski created The Jewish Museum Berlin; one of the largest Jewish Museums in Europe. 

Axis of the Holocaust

Axis of Exile

The floor plan is shaped like a zigzag line intersected by a straight line. Empty spaces called "voids" can be found throughout the building, these symbolize the lack of jews in Germany during the holocaust. 

Axis of continuity

Three paths cross on the lower level: the Axis of Exile, the Axis of the Holocaust and the Axis of Continuity. White Hat Architecture thinks that a memorial needs to reach the viewer and evoke thoughts and feelings that are related to the theme of the memorial, in this case, the loss and suffering of the Jewish community. 

Garden of Exile

Garden of Exile

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Winners of Future Projects 2013

After a week dedicated to architecture celebrated by the WFA 2013 (World Architecture Festival), the best future projects from around the world were introduced and shown to a jury to compete for the award in each category.

White Hat Architecture brings you the images of the future projects that won in each category:

Winner of Future Health category – New Sulaibikhat Medical Center (Kuwait) AGi Architects

Winner of Future House category – Meditation House (Lebanon), MZ Architects

Winner of Future Commercial Mixed Use category - New Office in Central London (UK), Allford Hall Monaghan Morris via blog White Hat Architecture

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Winner of Future Projects Office category - Selcuk Ecza Headquarters (Turkey), Tabanlioglu Architects

Winner of Future Projects Leisure-Led Development category - Singapore Sports Hub (Singapore), Singapore Sports Hub Design Team (Arup Associates + DP Architects + AECOM)

Winner of Future Projects Masterplanning category - Earls Court Masterplan (UK) Farrells

Winner of Future Projects Infrastructure category - Brisbane Ferry Terminals Post-Flood Recovery (Australia), Cox Rayner Architects

Winner of Future Projects Education - The Urban School In Elsinore (Denmark), EFFEKT, Rubow

Winner of Future Projects Competition entries - National Maritime Museum of China (China), Cox Rayner Architects 

Winner of Future Projects Residential - Siamese Blossom (Thailand), Somdoon Architects Ltd 

Winner of Future Projects Experimental - White Collar Factory (UK), Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

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Winners of World Festival Architecture 2013

After a week dedicated to architecture celebrated by the WFA 2013 (World Architecture Festival), the best projects from around the world were introduced and shown to a jury to compete for the award in each category.

White Hat Architecture brings you the images of the projects that won in each category:

Completed Building House category - The Left-Over-Space House (Australia), Cox Rayner Architects, Casey and Rebekah Vallance

Completed Building Housing category - 28th Street Apartments (USA), Koning Eizenberg Architecture

Completed Building Office category - Statoil Regional and International offices (Norway) A-Lab

Completed Building Higher Education and research category - University of Exeter: Forum Project (UK), 

Wilkinson Eyre Architects

Completed Building Display category - The Blue Planet (Denmark), 3XN

Completed Building Religion category - Sancaklar Mosque (Turkey), EAA - Emre Arolat Architects

Completed Building Schools category - Fontys Sports College (Netherlands) Mecanoo International

Completed Building Shopping category - Emporia (Sweden), Wingardh Arkitektkontor

Civic and Community - Women's Opportunity Centre (Rwanda), Sharon Davis Design

Villa – Namly House (Singapore), CHANG Architects

Health - Rush University Medical Center New Hospital Tower (Chicago), Perkins+Will

Production/Energy/Recycling - A Simple Factory Building (Singapore), Pencil Office

Hotel/Leisure - Citizen M London Bankside (UK), Concrete

Sport - Splash point Leisure Centre (UK), Wilkinson Eyre Architects

New and Old - Conversion of the Palais Rasumofsky (Austria), Baar-Baarenfels Architekten

Transport - Sydney Cruise Terminal (Australia), Johnson Pilton Walker Architects

Culture - Aukland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki (New Zealand), Frances-Jones Morehen Thorp and Archimedia

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