Culture

Grimshaw and Buro Happold reclaim the Cutty Sark for future generations    

Opened to the public in 2011, the Museum of Liverpool is one of the world’s leading city history museums and the largest newly created national museum in the UK for over a hundred years. Situated alongside the Three Graces in Liverpool’s historic waterfront setting, it will showcase Liverpool’s social history and popular culture while setting a global benchmark for other museums of its kind.

Inspiring minds through nature and science Formed by the merger of three museums, the 5-storey 180,000 square foot Morphosis-designed building will serve as the new home for the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. The new museum will provide expansive space for exhibitions and educational activities, including an outdoor area, auditorium and visitor amenities.  

Buro Happold delivers a new centre for cultural in the heart of Belfast

At last – the Cutty Sark has re-opened and perk of the job, I got to see this ‘grand old lady of the seas’ a day before the Queen and before the general...

Recreating traditional Arabian architecture

From over 306 national and international entries, the Civic Trust Awards have recognised a total of 52 projects this year. The awards which celebrate outstanding architecture and built environment projects were presented to the...

Times Eureka Pavilion wins Architects’ Journal Small Projects Sustainability award

Pigs love it, Glastonbury’s full of it, and it’s a pain to get out of carpets.

Comprehensive design and coordination by Buro Happold produces building systems that are sophisticated, energy-efficient, and above all, invisible, preserving architect Renzo Piano’s elegant aesthetic

Buro Happold has developed the Value Improvement Process to help deliver best value. This is done by focussing on maximising the benefits of a project, gaining an understanding of the important but more subjective and difficult...

We are all touched by spaces which inspire, stimulate or comfort us. Great buildings capture the public imagination, and become part of our cultural identity. Many of these buildings have stood the test of time and have been...

Designed by architectural practice Morphosis, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, Texas is approaching the final stages of construction and this latest image from the site highlights the progress to date. Buro...

This prestigious development is being built on the 74-acre site of the Warsaw Citadel, which is undergoing refurbishment. Chosen in an international competition, the winning architecture project aims to create a complex comprising of a main building with an enormous hall made of glass, with the total area of 100,000 sqm. The building will be located along the route between Wojska Polskiego Avenue and Execution Gate, flanked by two smaller pavilions. At the centre of the premises is the historic Gwardii Square which covers an area of 10,000 sqm.

The Smithsonian Institution occupies the former United States Patent Building, the finest example of Greek revival architecture in the US. The building, once slated for demolition in 1958, is now designated as a national historical landmark. Rescued by President Eisenhower and transferred to the Smithsonian Institution, the building now serves as the National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian American Art Museum.

An exemplar project for Buro Happold in terms of multi-disciplinary team working and a cultural first for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the King Abdulaziz Centre for World Culture and Knowledge will offer a range of specialised cultural, educational and youth leadership programmes and activities, to promote a positive impact on human development and culture within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

This important international memorial lies on an undulating site in the historic centre of Berlin between the Brandenburg Gate and Potsdamer Platz. The extraordinary project to construct a Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe involved a team of multi disciplinary engineers from Buro Happold, providing structural engineering, building services and site infrastructure.

In March 2007, the Tourist Development and Investment Company of Abu Dhabi announced that a new Louvre Museum would be completed in the city of Abu Dhabi by 2012. The new museum’s dramatic domed roof is undoubtedly the strongest...

The new Riverside Museum, Scotland’s Museum of Transport and Travel, is located on a dramatic site at the point where two rivers, the Clyde and the Kelvin meet, close to Glasgow Harbour. As well as providing a permanent home for collections not previously on public display, the new museum exhibits the contents of the old Glasgow Museum previously held at Kelvin Hall. Kelvin Hall was the second most visited attraction of its type in the UK, with half a million visitors a year, so the new Riverside Museum is well placed to become a world-class cultural destination.

Inspired by folklore, the Polish Pavilion has a striking façade that features a number of inclined surfaces designed to resemble folded paper, cut out in a folk art design. Reflecting the main theme of the Expo – ‘Better City,...

Redefining historical cultural spaces requires a certain set of skills: vision, perception and a delicate touch. The redevelopment of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre included the creation of a 1,030 seat auditorium with a thrust...