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Andrew Wallace from Andrew Wallace Architect + Interior Designers, was in Paris this summer and visitied one of the most popular museum in the city ,the Quai Branly Museum.

The Musee du quai Branly in the vicinity of the Eiffel Tower is undoubtedly one of the premier cultural institutions of Paris. Instantly recognizable because of its lush plant wall designed by the botanist Patrick Blanc, it opened in 2006, and focuses on non-European cultures. Boasting a theatre, a reading room, a cinema, a restaurant and a bookshop, the building designed by the famed architect Jean Nouvel is situated in grounds resembling a cultivated wilderness, and its 2-hectare garden is a pleasant spot in which to relax after the visit.

Andrew Wallace from Andrew Wallace Architect + Interior Designers, was in Milan once and saw this Stuart Weitzman store design by Zaha Hadid. 

International shoe designer, Stuart Weitzman’s Milan flagship store designed by Zaha Hadid Architects introduces a new commercial environment where geometric forms create an open discourse throughout the interior space in a rhythmic, sublime manner. The 3000 sqft boutique consists of elements that flow through the space in an fluid, ornamental nature. The Milan flagship is fluid and playful.

Andrew Wallace from Andrew Wallace Architect + Interior Designers, was in Rome this summer and visitied one of the most popular monument in the city , The Pantheon.

Even today, almost 2000 years after its construction, the breathtaking pantheon is a remarkable building to see. The spectacular design, proportions, elegance and harmony are a striking reminder of the architecture of the great Roman Empire.

The Roman Pantheon is the most preserved and influential building of ancient Rome. It is a Roman temple dedicated to all the gods of pagan Rome. As the brick stamps on the side of the building reveal it was built and dedicated between A.D 118 and 125.

Andrew Wallace ,of Andrew Wallace Architects + Interior Designers from Liverpool, went to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and saw different exhibition, like the open air exposition of Tony Cragg.

A leanding artistof his generation, Tony Cragg’s practice grows from his fascination with the ‘vast storehouse’ of materials in the world and what he can make from them. Born in 1949, Cragg moved to Wuppertal (Germany) in 1977 and over the last forty years has created an extraordinary body of work , which he considers to be grouped into different families or series.

Andrew Wallace ,of Andrew Wallace Architects + Interior Designers from Liverpool, went to Paris this summer and visited the Centre Pompidou where there was an exhibition about Jean Prouvé.

The Mame printworks represents an iportant mileston in the work of Bernard Zehrfuss, being his first project in France after an early carrer in unisi. It was equally a milestone for Jean Prouvé  : the metal shed roof (whose asymmetric structure has the north-facing glazing typical of factory roofs) would inspire the «shell» form, so enriching his constructional vocabulary. Prouvé was asked by the architect to produce the shed roofs of the workshopss and the ligth constructions set on the terrace roof  of the multi-floored administrative office.

Andrew Wallace ,of Andrew Wallace Architects + Interior Designers from Liverpool, went to Paris this summer and visited the Centre Pompidou where there was an exhibition about Jean Prouvé.

We need machine-made houses», declared Jean Prouvé in 1945, facing up to the tasks of post-War reconstrvuction. Given the industrial methods he developed, his project relied on a number of key constructional principles : the post and beam framwork for the «Métropole» and «Tropicale» houses; the shell for the roof od the Mame printworks; the crutch for the school in Villejuif. Whether load-bearing structures or façade elements, all components were of metal (steel or aluminium), generally in the form of folded sheet.

Andrew Wallace ,of Andrew Wallace Architects + Interior Designers from Liverpool, went to Paris this summer and visited the LouisVuitton Fondation. 

1980, New York, USA. Lives and works in Johannesburg. Born into an activist family returned from the USA at the end of apartheid, this artist questions memory and through it the idea of heroes. These are the 16 portraits composing the series ‘Heroes’ That the artist developed after the death of Nelson Mandela in December 2001.

Andrew Wallace, from Andrew Wallace Architects + Interior Designers, an architect and interior designer from Liverpool went to an exhibition in Rome and saw different project like the San Pasquale metro station in Naples by the architect Boris Podrecca.

The project aims at connecting the two opposed worlds of Naples, namely the daytime surface and the underground, the latter being  unknown before the intervention. The project area was underwater until the 800s ; thusly, the new square and station are thematically linked to water.

Andrew Wallace, from Andrew Wallace Architects + Interior Designers, an architect and interior designer from Liverpool went to an exhibition in Rome.

The international competition for the Palazo Centro Congressi EUR was promoted by the City of Rome and won in 1998 by studio Fuksas. The project concept is articuladed in three images: the container, the Cloud and the blade of the adjacent hotal. The first is a steel and glass parallelepiped, some thirty metres in height, flanked by two public plazas that connect it to the neighbourhood.

Andrew wallace at Andrew Wallace architects and interiors designers an architect from Liverpool. He visited the Maxi Museum in Rome and saw the Exhibition by Ryue Nishizama who design the Moriyama House in Tokyo.

The project was designed for a client who had made the unusual decision to stop working, and therefore wanted a portion of the house to be utilized as profit-making rental units. This initial brief led the architect to fragment the house into a number of distinct units separated by garden spaces, and this decomposition became the determining motivation of the design.