CULTURAL BUILDINGS
Architecture creates houses for culture, preserving it in all forms. AXIA has immersed itself into geographically diverse settings in order to design timeless and contemporary places for fine arts, music, sports, and worship.
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PHOTOGRAPHIC ART MUSEUM
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA / 2019
The camera is, by definition, a space. Through its circular lens, a framed reality is projected onto a rectilinear medium – a dark room. In the same way, our proposal, like the photographers tool is a vessel that frames and captures our material world. Formally and poetically, the building is the camera. Camera Obscura is a building that is both sculpture and precision. Between the laws of physics […]
BAMIYAN CULTURAL CENTER
BAMIYAN, AFGHANISTAN / 2015
Bound together by common purpose and inspired by Afghanistan’s rich and diverse contribution to world heritage, this proposal crosses political, social, and cultural boundaries towards the establishment of common ground […]
MUSIC & SOUND CENTRE
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA / 2018
This proposal for the Creative Music and Sound Center thoroughly considers the complexity of program inherent in a youth-oriented Music school of the 21st century, a balance between spaces of practical training, theoretical pedagogy, technological innovation, and public spectatorship […]
AL FALAH ISLAMIC CENTRE
SCARBOROUGH, ONTARIO / 2016
The Al Falah Islamic Centre project is an amplified and reinvigorated centre of community life, and aspires to be a source of inspiration and interaction for constituents of the growing Muslim populace in Oakville and the Greater Toronto Area […]
STUDIOFEED CREATIVE LAB
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA / ONGOING
StudioFeed is an incubator for music, technology, and community. It will bring artists, engineers, entrepreneurs, designers, activists, and the greater music community under one roof […]
SKI JUMP
OSLO, NORWAY / 2008
Inherent in the act of the ski jumping is the duality of flight and descent. This project represents the result of these opposed forces; a meeting of earth and sky […]
HELSINKI, FINLAND / 2014
Our proposal for the new Guggenheim in Helsinki emerges before the presence of the three main participants in this unique setting: City, Park, and Harbour […]
SCARBOROUGH PRAYER SPACE
SCARBOROUGH, ONTARIO / 2016
Utilizing a small space to maximum effect, this interior renovation will serve multiple purposes, from youth-oriented programming to a prayer space meant for a larger community […]
