Architecture Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/architecture/ Mechanically-minded travel Mon, 04 May 2026 10:19:18 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 The Chimney Lift at Battersea Power Station https://mechtraveller.com/2025/12/the-chimney-lift-at-battersea-power-station/ https://mechtraveller.com/2025/12/the-chimney-lift-at-battersea-power-station/#respond Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:40:48 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=12510 The Chimney Lift at London’s Battersea Power Station (BPS) has reopened with a new interactive experience area designed to engage and inform visitors about the huge and historic former electricity generating plant. What is the Chimney Lift? It’s a glass enclosed lift that rises up through one of the power station’s four iconic chimneys and […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2025/12/the-chimney-lift-at-battersea-power-station/feed/ 0 Architect Richard Rogers Exhibition at Sir John Soane’s Museum https://mechtraveller.com/2025/06/architect-richard-rogers-exhibition-at-sir-john-soanes-museum/ https://mechtraveller.com/2025/06/architect-richard-rogers-exhibition-at-sir-john-soanes-museum/#respond Wed, 18 Jun 2025 14:54:55 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=11833 The Sir John Soane’s Museum has opened a new temporary exhibition of the life and revolutionary work of British-Italian architect Richard Rogers. Richard Rogers: Talking Buildings was opened yesterday by the Soane’s Director, Will Gompertz and the curator of the exhibition, Richard’s son, Ab Rogers. The small exhibition in two rooms is the UK’s first […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2025/06/architect-richard-rogers-exhibition-at-sir-john-soanes-museum/feed/ 0 The Fontinettes Boat Lift, Arques, Pas-de-Calais https://mechtraveller.com/2024/07/the-fontinettes-boat-lift-arques-pas-de-calais/ https://mechtraveller.com/2024/07/the-fontinettes-boat-lift-arques-pas-de-calais/#respond Mon, 01 Jul 2024 10:44:19 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=10291 The Fontinettes Boat Lift (Ascenseur à bateaux des Fontinettes) in Arques, Pas-de-Calais. is a magnificent piece of 19th century engineering and architecture. It was built in the late 19th century at Fontinettes* to replace a set of five locks on the Neuffossé canal which linked/s the canalised rivers Lys and Aa**. This was an important […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2024/07/the-fontinettes-boat-lift-arques-pas-de-calais/feed/ 0 The British Normandy Memorial https://mechtraveller.com/2023/07/the-british-normandy-memorial/ https://mechtraveller.com/2023/07/the-british-normandy-memorial/#respond Sat, 29 Jul 2023 13:37:20 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=9245 The British Normandy Memorial lists the names of 22,442 servicemen & women serving under British command, who died in Normandy. It was conceived during the 71st D-Day Anniversary reunion in 2015, in a chance conversation between a British veteran, George Batts, and the BBC broadcaster Nicholas Witchell. Batts, a Royal Engineer who had landed on […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2023/07/the-british-normandy-memorial/feed/ 0 Pingtan Book House Architectural Award https://mechtraveller.com/2022/11/pingtan-book-house-architectural-award/ https://mechtraveller.com/2022/11/pingtan-book-house-architectural-award/#respond Wed, 30 Nov 2022 14:59:07 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=8404 Love this! It reminds me of a ‘Bee Hotel’! The Pingtan Book House in China’s Hunan province* is designed to provide space for children to read and play. The design, by Hong Kong based Condition_Lab, has just been awarded ‘highly commended’ in the Cultural Building of the Year category of the annual Dezeen Awards. The […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2022/11/pingtan-book-house-architectural-award/feed/ 0 Architecture Prize for the Freedom Museum in Groesbeek, Holland https://mechtraveller.com/2022/11/architecture-prize-for-the-freedom-museum-in-groesbeek-holland/ https://mechtraveller.com/2022/11/architecture-prize-for-the-freedom-museum-in-groesbeek-holland/#respond Wed, 16 Nov 2022 13:03:16 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=8290 The Freedom Museum in Groesbeek, the Netherlands, has been awarded the Architecture MasterPrize for 2022 in the ‘Cultural Architecture’ category. The museum covers a wide range of WW2 experiences and stories, such as the famine endured by Dutch civilians in 1944/5, but the focus is on the liberation of Holland and two local elements of […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2022/11/architecture-prize-for-the-freedom-museum-in-groesbeek-holland/feed/ 0 An old sugar factory is turned into a modern hotel complex – with machinery! https://mechtraveller.com/2022/03/an-old-sugar-factory-is-turned-into-a-modern-hotel-complex-with-machinery/ https://mechtraveller.com/2022/03/an-old-sugar-factory-is-turned-into-a-modern-hotel-complex-with-machinery/#respond Thu, 17 Mar 2022 14:58:18 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=7357 The Cukrownia Żnin (“Znin Sugar Factory”) in Poland is an industrial heritage project, repurposing an old sugar factory and preserving its magnificent 19th century buildings. Up until 2004, it produced sugar from beets. Now it is a hotel complex. If you like industrial design and architecture, this is one of those new ‘designer’ hotel projects […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2022/03/an-old-sugar-factory-is-turned-into-a-modern-hotel-complex-with-machinery/feed/ 0 Kempinski to open a floating hotel https://mechtraveller.com/2021/12/kempinski-to-open-a-floating-hotel/ https://mechtraveller.com/2021/12/kempinski-to-open-a-floating-hotel/#respond Thu, 09 Dec 2021 12:38:54 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=7218 The luxury hotel brand Kempinski is to open a floating hotel in Dubai in 2023. The Kempinski Floating Palace will be anchored next to one of the most exclusive beach stretches in Dubai on Jumeirah Beach Road. The main hotel building will be surrounded by 12 floating luxury villas which are designed to be self-sufficient […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2021/12/kempinski-to-open-a-floating-hotel/feed/ 0 The Deformable modularized COVID-19 Epidemic Prevention Hospital in Shanghai https://mechtraveller.com/2021/09/the-deformable-modularized-covid-19-epidemic-prevention-hospital-in-shanghai/ https://mechtraveller.com/2021/09/the-deformable-modularized-covid-19-epidemic-prevention-hospital-in-shanghai/#respond Wed, 08 Sep 2021 15:02:13 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=6973 This is an interesting and timely piece of engineering design. This modular hospital is the winner of the ‘Health’ category in this year’s World Architecture Festival. It is currently under construction in a park on Mincheng Road, Minhang District, Shanghai. The modular hospital is designed by Professor Chenping Han and his team from School of […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2021/09/the-deformable-modularized-covid-19-epidemic-prevention-hospital-in-shanghai/feed/ 0 Rome’s Colosseum is to get a high tech stage floor https://mechtraveller.com/2021/05/romes-colosseum-is-to-get-a-high-tech-stage-floor/ https://mechtraveller.com/2021/05/romes-colosseum-is-to-get-a-high-tech-stage-floor/#respond Tue, 04 May 2021 13:51:32 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=6846 Italy’s Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini, has announced the winner of a technical tender to design and build a new stage floor for the 2,000 year old Colosseum. The original wooden arena floor covered an underground network of rooms and corridors, which housed the waiting animals, gladiators and performers. This level was exposed in the […]

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