Architecture and Art in Spain

• Antonio Gaudi Architect

PARC GUELL
Parc Güell found its humble beginnings as a failed attempt to develop a residential garden city along the El Carmel hill. These days, though you won’t find any available real estate, the green space has been embraced as Barcelona’s most visited park, celebrated as much for its stunning views as for its mosaic-covered benches and geologically-inspired architecture. You can even take a tour of the famed architect’s home, where he lived with his family from 1906 until his death twenty years later

 

CASA MILA

La Pedrera -Casa Milà is one of Gaudí’s most celebrated works of civil architecture – which isn’t to say it was readily accepted by the neighborhood. Its distinct structure is intended to recreate an unending curve, giving it a distinctly natural feel that, at the time of its construction, was considered a bit too unconventional. This angle-less design carries over to just about every aspect of the building, from its circular interior courtyard to its rippling façade.   

 

CASA BATLLO
Casa Batlló is without a doubt one of Antoni Gaudí’s most stunning designs, with its colorful ceramic-and-glass exterior walls complemented by multi-sized windows and balconies that appear to be pulled straight from an ossuary.

The interior amazes as well in all its colorful, naturally curved glory, making this a stop you’ll want to take a little time to savor inside and out

 

 

SAGRADA FAMILIA
The reins of Barcelona’s Holy Family Cathedral were handed over to Gaudí in 1883, and though it’s not slated for completion until 2026 this massive project has become widely recognized as the architect’s single greatest work.

With its trademark curvilinear spires, gloriously colored stained glass windows and countless other unique characteristics, it’s been described by renowned architectural critics as constituting “The most extraordinary personal interpretation of Gothic architecture since the Middle Ages.” Long queues aside, it’s hard not to be intrigued by praise like that.

   

 

 

 

 

 

The Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya-MNAC

Is the national museum of Catalan visual art located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Situated on Montjuïc hill at the end of Avinguda de la Reina Maria Cristina, near Pl Espanya, the museum is especially notable for its outstanding collection of Romanesque church paintings, and for Catalan art and design from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including modernism and noucentisme.

The museum is housed in the Palau Nacional, a huge, Italian-style building dating to 1929.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Fundació Joan Miró, Centre d ‘Estudis d’Art Contemporani  is a museum of modern art honoring Joan Miró located on the hill called Montjuïc in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain).

   

• The Museu Picasso , located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, houses one of the most extensive collections of artworks by the 20th-century Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.

With 4,251 works exhibited by the painter, the museum has one of the most complete permanent collections of work

  

• Architect Frank O’Gehry

Golden Fish sculpture, 1992year

Located in the Olympic Port, next to the towers and Mapfre Arts Barcelona.This is a monumental metal sculpture.
Pez Dorado is a network of thin metal lines intersecting to form a lattice with a style markedly abstract. Nevertheless, it sensed the figure of a fish whose scales acquired a gold when they affect the sun’s rays.
Gehry describes his constructions “fish.” The skin of a fish or imply neither articulates how his internal organs. However, a fish can be beautiful, definitely tailored to fit their environment, and its skin is used to keep the body dynamically consistent. The idea of the fish, he says, is an expression of their anger against useless historical references of postmodernism.
Gehry uses computer-aided design not to create their models, which are made by hand, but to provide precise specifications for their construction asymmetrical forms.

 

Guggenheim  Museum Bilbao

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art

 

 

• The Barcelona Pavilion, designed by Arch. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, was the German Pavilion for the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona, Spain.

This building was used for the official opening of the German section of the exhibition.

It is an important building in the history of modern architecture, known for its simple form and its spectacular use of extravagant materials, such as marble, red onyx and travertine.

The same features of minimalism and spectacular can be applied to the prestigious furniture specifically designed for the building, including the iconic Barcelona chair. It has inspired many important modernist buildings.

 

Salvador Dalí’s Theatre-Museum in Figueres, Spain

• Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain range near Barcelona, in Spain.

It is part of the Catalan Pre-Coastal Range. The main peaks are Sant Jeroni (1,236 m), Montgrós (1,120 m) and Miranda de les Agulles (903 m)

 

• Arch.Jean Nouvel at Barcelona and Madrid

The competition of ideas for the expansion of the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia established a triangular site located southwest of the building, created by Sabatini in the second half of the eighteenth century

• Centro de Arte Reina Sofia- The architect Jean Nouvel explains that this extension is “an invitation to create exhibits, activities… is a support for actions.” –2001-2005 year

“A wing under which he discovers the sky with reflections and transparencies, a unifying wing that does not touch the museum, but was arrested less than a meter to let a ray of light, a wing which corresponds exactly to cover the forged penultimate floor of the museum.”

For the construction new materials and techniques have been resorted to in the field of construction, in Spain, since according to the architect Jean Nouvel “elements employed in the construction of this extension are new in Spain but have been used in other countries such as England or France.” These materials are the composite (vidi fiber and polyester) that covers the building of the addition, both inside and outside, with a very distinctive reddish hue.
Materials known as lamas have been used to create unique designs for protecting facades of extruded aluminum. The creation for the roof of the library is an immense lamp of molded glass at the Royal Glass Factory of the Granja (Segovia) and the aerodynamic deck, covered with alucore and zinc.
Two of the buildings (Library and Exhibitions) are constructed of rolled steel. Beams and pillars have been made, as if it were a fabric, with the laser cutting of pilasters 5cm thick to be welded in the workshops of the company Horta and were transferred to work in each 12, 16 and 22 meters.
The building of the auditoriums was built with a reinforced concrete system. Two large ribs, symmetrical in arrangement, bear the forces of the auditoriums. The stalls are the result of uniting the ribs by reinforced concrete beams.

The large deck that rises six meters on the terraces of the buildings measured nearly 8,000 square meters and is supported by metal pillars. The overhangs are up to 36 meters in flight. It was up a structure of metal girders, filled with 3.4 m in height in the central area, the thickness is reduced up to 5cm in the outer perimeter

   

• The Torre Glòries, formerly known as Torre Agbar  is a 38-story skyscraper/tower located between Avinguda Diagonal and Carrer Badajoz, near Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, which marks the gateway to the new technological district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

It was designed by French architect Jean Nouvel in association with the Spanish firm b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos and built by Dragados. The Torre Glòries is located in the Poblenou neighbourhood of Barcelona and it was originally named after its owners, the Agbar Group, a holding company whose interests include the Barc elona water company Aigües de Barcelona

• Hotel Puerta América, Madrid | 5-star hotel in Madrid

Hotel Silken Puerta América is a Silken Hotel in Madrid, Spain.

The exterior was designed by Jean Nouvel and each floor was designed by a different architectural firm including Ron Arad (7th) and Arata Isozaki (10th). Javier Mariscal and Fernando Salas designed the 11th.

Freedom, architecture and design

This hotel is a real treasure chest. Every corner, every angle and every plane reveals fresh surprise. Every floor is a world of its own, and a tribute to its creator. A creativity that knows no limits except those imposed by the business of building. Freedom reigns and imagination is in its element. Hotel deserve twenty-first century treatment too-to invent new form of accommodation and living away from home, and to stay engraved in the memory of your trip.

The Hotel’s 282 rooms, 21 junior suites and 12 suites are set out over twelve floors. Twelve floors means twelve designers and architects creating miracles of diversity. Twelve versions of how to make privacy work using layout, traditional materials and new technologies. Twelve ways of dreaming, creating indoor landscapes essential spaces, futurist vision, artistic experience. Each room offering an imaginative, stimulating and ultimately private scenario.

Public spaces- Communal areas like corridors, lobbies and reception express the same diversity. The way between reception and the door of your room is filled with contrast, ideas and surprises. The Lobby is a prologue announcing or suggesting what every room has in store. In the corridors, your step through settings shaped by the projects creators, rescued from monotony and uniformity to cheer and illuminate your way.

     

• W Hotel- Barcelona

   

• Mandarin Hotel Barcelona  

   

• Japanese Arch Toyo Ito Barcelona

The Toyo Ito building façade mimics sea waves

Japanese architect Toyo Ito has inaugurated his intervention of the façade, the central core and the interior patios of a luxurious 41 apartment building opposite ‘la Pedrera’ in Barcelona, Spain.

the rest of the building was designed by the architects Carlos Bassó and Toni Olaya on what was hitherto an office block.

Toyo Ito was initially reluctant to do the project but when he went up to the rooftop, seeing ‘la Pedrera’ by Antonì Gaudì, it made an immense impression on him.

Ito admitted he had fallen in love with gaudy’s work during a visit to Barcelona on his honeymoon.

 

 

Hotel Porta Fira (also Torres de Toyo Ito with Torre Realia BCN) is a 28-storey, 113 m (371 ft) skyscraper hotel designed by Arch.Toyo Ito on the Plaza de Europa in the district of Granvia l’Hospitalet in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, a suburb of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

The building was the 2010 first-place winner of the Emporis Skyscraper Award.

   

• Arch.Santiago Calatrava

The City of Arts and Sciences  is an entertainment-based cultural and architectural complex in the city of Valencia, Spain.

It is the most important modern tourist destination in the city of Valencia and one of the 12 Treasures of Spain.
The City of Arts and Sciences is situated at the end of the former riverbed of the river Turia, which was drained and rerouted after a catastrophic flood in 1957.
Designed by Santiago Calatrava and Félix Candela, the project began the first stages of construction in July 1996, and was inaugurated April 16, 1998 with the opening of L’Hemisfèric.

The last great component of the City of Arts and Sciences, El Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, was inaugurated on October 9, 2005, Valencian Community Day

 

• Museu Blau de les Ciències Naturals

With its large exterior and interior spaces and its reference to natural processes and shapes, the architecture of the Forum is a particularly appropriate new home for the relocated Museum. And the Museum of Natural Science promises to energetically revitalize the existing building, replacing vacant space with intense new public activities.

The open public space that marks the approach from the Diagonal and extends under the triangular body of the building is now diversified and activated, engaging with the life of the city.

The corner addressing the city center retains its function as the main public approach. This is enhanced by the three existing pavilions which are reconfigured to provide meeting places for groups and general information along the approach to the museum entrance. The second corner, further along the Diagonal is enlivened with lush external planting and the basin under the water patio. And finally, the corner addressing the sea is activated by a new exterior dining area for students and groups, adjacent to a bar which opens onto the plaza.

The core of the Museum is its permanent exhibition. This consists of an outstanding collection of rocks and minerals, taxidermy, microbes, plants and herbariums, meteorites, scientific drawings, diagrams, fossils and skeletons, sounds and dioramas, gathered together over centuries in Barcelona.

 

Location: Barcelona, Spain
Architect: Herzog & de Meuron
Partners: Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Ascan Mergenthaler, David Koch
Project Architect: Tomislav Dushanov (Associate)
Project Team: Miquel del Río, Amparo Casaní Arazo, Dulcinea Santos, Stephen Hodgson
Ground Floor: Pavilions 150sqm; Main Entrance 260sqm; Bar 75sqm; Secondary entrance 60sqm; Classroom 70sqm; Staff entrance 65sqm; Plants Garden 280sqm
First floor: Lobby 942sqm; Shop 395sqm; Media library 167sqm; Restaurant 760sqm; Classroom 200sqm; Events room 150sqm; Permanent Exhibition 2.956sqm; Temporary Exhibition 1000sqm; Back of House:1150sqm
Second floor: Access 50sqm; Storage 200sqm
Roof terrace: Outdoor Space 205sqm
Year: 2012

JAPAN- The four largest island of Japan are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku, which make up about ninety-seven percent of Japan’s land area and often are referred to as home islands.

• KYUSHU–

Fukuoka Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan on Kyūshū Island. The capital is the city of Fukuoka. Kumamoto Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu.
The capital is the city of Kumamoto. Amakusa 

Fukuoka Castle is a Japanese castle located in Chūō-ku, Fukuoka, Japan. It is also known as Maizuru Castle .Completed in the early Edo period for Kuroda Nagamasa, it has been decreed a historic site by the Japanese government.

• HONSHU– The island includes several past Japanese capitals, including Kyoto, Nara, and Kamakura.

KYOTO-

• Kinkaku-ji “Temple of the Golden Pavilion”, officially named Rokuon-ji is a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan.

It is one of the most popular buildings in Japan, attracting a large number of visitors annually.
It is designated as a National Special Historic Site, a National Special Landscape and is one of 17 locations making up the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto which are World Heritage Sites.

   

• Kiyomizu-dera officially Otowa-san Kiyomizu-dera is an independent Buddhist temple in eastern Kyoto.

The temple is part of the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities) UNESCO World Heritage site.
The place is not to be confused with Kiyomizu-dera in Yasugi, Shimane, which is part of the 33-temple route of the Chūgoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage through western Japan, or the Kiyozumi-dera temple associated with the Buddhist priest Nichiren

Most of Japan’s industry is located in a belt running along Honshu’s southern coast, from Tokyo to Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya, Kobe, and Hiroshima

TOKYO-

Architecture in Tokyo has largely been shaped by Tokyo’s history. Twice in recent history has the metropolis been left in ruins: first in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake and later after extensive firebombing in World War II. Because of this, Tokyo’s urban landscape consists mainly of modern and contemporary architecture, and older buildings are scarce.
Tokyo features many internationally famous forms of modern architecture including Tokyo International Forum, Asahi Beer Hall, Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower, NTT Docomo Yoyogi Building and Rainbow Bridge.

Tokyo also features two distinctive towers: Tokyo Tower, and the new Tokyo Skytree, which is the tallest tower in both Japan and the world, and the second tallest structure in the world after the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
Tokyo also contains numerous parks and gardens. There are four national parks in Tokyo Prefecture, including the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park, which includes all of the Izu Islands.

• National Art Center at Tokyo – The National Art Center (NACT) is a museum in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
  The building has been designed by Kisho Kurokawa
  

     

      

 

 

 

 

• Raffles Design international, Student Achievement/ Park ELLE DECOR Student Contest/24th January 2014

Students from Raffles Design international, Mumbai will be present at the NSIC Ground in Okhla, New Delhi to showcase their award winning design.
Two groups of students from the interior design department had won the distinctive Park ELLE DECOR Design Competition.Our students are certainly elated to have won in both the Furniture of small Spaces Category and Lighting Category. We thank them for their team work and perseverance. More important, we are proud of their achievement and their belief in their work and craft.

We also express our appreciation to Ms. Marijana Beric, a lecturer of the Interior Design department, who had provided guidance and support to our students in this competition.

    

 

• The State Hermitage Museum is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

The second-largest art museum in the world, it was founded in 1764 when Empress Catherine the Great acquired an impressive collection of paintings from the Berlin merchant Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky.

The museum celebrates the anniversary of its founding each year on 7 December, Saint Catherine’s Day.

      

 

• The Moscow ,usually referred to as the Kremlin, is a fortified complex at the heart of Moscow, overlooking the Moskva River to the south, Saint Basil’s Cathedral and Red Square to the east, and the Alexander Garden to the west.

It is the best known of the kremlins (Russian citadels) and includes five palaces, four cathedrals, and the enclosing Kremlin Wall with Kremlin towers. Also within this complex is the Grand Kremlin Palace that was formerly the tsar’s Moscow residence.

The complex now serves as the official residence of the President of the Russian Federation and as a museum with 2,746,405 visitors in 2017. The name “Kremlin” means “fortress inside a city”, and is often also used metonymically to refer to the government of the Russian Federation in a similar sense to how “White House” is used to refer to the Executive Office of the President of the United States.

It had previously been used to refer to the government of the Soviet Union (1922–1991) and its highest members (such as general secretaries, premiers, presidents, ministers, and commissars). The term “Kremlinology” refers to the study of Soviet and Russian politics.

  

• The State Tretyakov Gallery is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, the foremost depository of Russian fine art in the world.

The gallery’s history starts in 1856 when the Moscow merchant Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov acquired works by Russian artists of his day with the aim of creating a collection, which might later grow into a museum of national art. In 1892, Tretyakov presented his already famous collection of approximately 2,000 works (1,362 paintings, 526 drawings, and 9 sculptures) to the Russian nation.

 

          

 

• Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center- Vystavka Dostizheniy Narodnogo Khozyaystva (VDNKh) , lit. Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy is a permanent general purpose trade show and amusement park in Moscow, Russia.

A magnificent statue of Lenin greets visitors in front of the main pavilion, where the Corinthian columns of Stalinist architecture come together with the Red Army star and the crests of the 15 Soviet Socialist Republics to celebrate socialism, national glory, and scientific progress — three achievements as intricately intertwined in the resulting panorama as they were in the Soviet imagination.

• Railroad Museum of the Moscow Railway

• Public Museum of the Moscow Metro

Mercury City Tower  is a supertall skyscraper located on plot 14 in the Moscow International Business Center (MIBC) in Moscow, Russia.

Occupying a total area of 173,960 sqmt (1,872,500 sq ft), the mixed-use building houses offices, apartments, a fitness center, and retail stores.
Rising 338.8 m (1,112 ft) tall, the Mercury City Tower was formerly the tallest building of Russia and Europe, having surpassed the Moscow Tower of the neighboring City of Capitals complex (also in the MIBC) as the tallest of Russia and The Shard in London as Europe’s tallest building

Setting the benchmark for the Middle East Architecture sector.

www.cityscapeglobal.com

Cityscape Global is the world’s largest networking exhibition and conference on property development. It is a trade show for the real estate industry in Dubai attended by regional and international investors, developers, architects and  designers, governmental authorities, people involved in the design and construction of both public and private real estate developments.

Over 150 local, regional and international real estate firms exhibit their projects and services at the exhibition at the Dubai International Convention Centre (DICEC). It is organized by Informal Exhibitions. Sister events of Cityscape global are Cityscape Abu Dhabi, Cityscape Egypt, Cityscape Riyadh, Cityscape Jeddah, Cityscape Qatar, Latin America and Cityscape Asia.

 

 

The Burj Khalifa , known as the Burj Dubai prior to its inauguration in 2010, is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

With a total height of 829.8 m (2,722 ft) and a roof height (excluding antenna) of 828 m (2,717 ft), the Burj Khalifa has been the tallest structure in the world since its topping out in late 2008.

Construction of the Burj Khalifa began in 2004, with the exterior completed five years later in 2009.

The primary structure is reinforced concrete. The building was opened in 2010 as part of a new development called Downtown Dubai.

It is designed to be the centrepiece of large-scale, mixed-use development. The decision to construct the building is reportedly based on the government’s decision to diversify from an oil-based economy, and for Dubai to gain international recognition. The building was originally named Burj Dubai but was renamed in honor of the ruler of Abu Dhabi and president of the United Arab Emirates, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan;

Abu Dhabi and the UAE government lent Dubai money to pay its debts. The building broke numerous height records, including its designation as the tallest building in the world.
Burj Khalifa was designed by Adrian Smith, of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, whose firm designed the Willis Tower and One World Trade Center.

Hyder Consulting was chosen to be the supervising engineer with NORR Group Consultants International Limited chosen to supervise the architecture of the project. The design is derived from the Islamic architecture of the region, such as in the Great Mosque of Samarra. The Y-shaped tripartite floor geometry is designed to optimize residential and hotel space.

A buttressed central core and wings are used to support the height of the building. Although this design was derived from Tower Palace III, the Burj Khalifa’s central core houses all vertical transportation with the exception of egress stairs within each of the wings.

The structure also features a cladding system which is designed to withstand Dubai’s hot summer temperatures. It contains a total of 57 elevators and 8 escalators.

• The Louvre Abu Dhabi is an art and civilization museum, located in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

The museum is designed as a “seemingly floating dome structure”; its web-patterned dome allowing the sun to filter through. The overall effect is meant to represent “rays of sunlight passing through date palm fronds in an oasis.
The total area of the museum will be approximately 24,000 sqmt (260,000 sq ft).  The permanent collection will occupy 6,000 square metres (65,000 sq ft), and the temporary exhibitions will take place over 2,000 square metres (22,000 sq ft), making it the largest art museum in the Arabian peninsula. Artworks from around the world are showcased at the museum, with particular focus placed upon bridging the gap between Eastern and Western art.
The museum was established on 8 November 2017. The museum is located on the Saadiyat Island Cultural District.  The final cost of the construction is expected to be about €600 million.

    

Street Art & restaurant art

 

 Last Exit- Street food truck park

 

Masdar City Abu Dhabi

Masdar City  is a planned city project in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates.

Its core is being built by Masdar, a subsidiary of Mubadala Development Company, with the majority of seed capital provided by the Government of Abu Dhabi.

Designed by the British architectural firm Foster and Partners, the city relies on solar energy and other renewable energy sources.

Masdar City is being constructed 17 kilometres (11 mi) east-south-east of the city of Abu Dhabi, beside Abu Dhabi International Airport.
Masdar City hosts the headquarters of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

The city is designed to be a hub for cleantech companies. Its first tenant was the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, which has been operating in the city since it moved into its campus in September 2010.

       

Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque  is located in Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates.The largest mosque in the country, it is the key place of worship for daily prayers , Friday gathering and Eid prayers. During Eid it may be visited by more than 41,000 people.
The Grand Mosque was constructed between 1996 and 2007.It was designed by Syrian architect Yousef Abdelky.

The building complex measures approximately 290 m (960 ft) by 420 m (1,380 ft), covering an area of more than 12 hectares (30 acres), excluding exterior landscaping and vehicle parking

    

• São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) / Avenida Paulista, 1578 maps.org.br

Architect- Lina Bo Bardi

Afro-Atlantic Histories( 29.6-21.10.2018)- Afro-Atlantic Histories presents a selection of 450 works by 214 artists ranging from the 16th to 21st centuries.

Brazil is the central territory in the Afro-Atlantic histories, having received about 46% of the roughly 11 million Africans brought against their will to the side of the ocean throughout more then 300 years. The country also was the last to end the slave trade with the so called Golden Law of 1888, which perversely did not include any social integration plan,setting the stage for enduring economy, political and racial inequalities. On the other hand, Brazil’s leading role in those histories also sowed here a rich and lasting legacy from African cultures.

Eco Design-https://carapana.wordpress.com/ ”The Eco-design handbook”

 

• The São Paulo Museum of Modern Art( MAM) /Located at Ibirapuera park.

Its collection contains more than 5,000 works by the most representative modern and contemporary artists, principally Brazilian ones.

• Museum of Contemporary art Sao Paulo Brazil (MAC)/ Located at Ibirapuera park.

It is a contemporary art museum located in the main campus of the University of São Paulo, in São Paulo, Brazil, and in Ibirapuera Park, in the same city. It is one of the largest art museums in the country.

 

 

• The Ibirapuera Auditorium is a building conceived by Arch.Oscar Niemeyer for the presentation of musical spectacles, situated in Ibirapuera Park in São Paulo.

  

• The Museum of Tomorrow – Museu do Amanhã is a science museum in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.It was designed by Spanish neofuturistic arch. Santiago Calatrava, and built next to the waterfront at Pier Maua. Its construction was supported by the Roberto Marinho Foundation and cost approximately 230 million reais.

  The building was opened on December 17, 2015, with President Dilma Rousseff in attendance. The main exhibition takes visitors through five main areas: Cosmos, Earth, Anthropocene, Tomorrow, and Us via a number of experiments and experiences. This intricate yet captivating museum mixes science with an innovative design to focus on sustainable cities and an ecological world. The museum was part of the city’s port area renewal for the 2016 Summer Olympics.