100 VISITOR CENTRES


Denmark. Another architectural competition winner, the 700 sq m centre, completed last year, was also formed of cast-in-place concrete, semi- buried into the dune landscape of the National Park. Here the concrete walls form a sheltered space, funnelling visitors naturally into the centre where they can find out more about the unique landscape.


‘We won the architectural competition in 2019 with a building that met the client’s ambition for a visitor centre whose architecture gently nudges its visitors to enter and explore the park,’ explained partner and architect at LOOP, Morten Nymann. Te building provides both a shelter from, and is sheltered by, the


Inside, huge windows and skylights ensure that the harsh weather outside is celebrated in all its beauty or ferocity


surrounding environment, with visitors able to walk around and even over the building as it nestles among the dunes. Inside, huge windows and skylights ensure that the harsh weather outside is celebrated in all its beauty or ferocity. In the equally sometimes windswept landscape of Speyside in Scotland, RSHP (formerly Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners) also chose to utilise a green roof for the undulating structure of the new combined distillery and visitor centre for Te Macallan whisky, designed to call to mind historic Scottish earthworks as well as the rolls of the landscape itself. Te premium whisky had been made on the site since 1824, but owner Edrington wanted a new


Below The Macallan


Distillery & Visitor Experience, Speyside, Scotland, has won awards for its use of wood and takes inspiration from traditional earthworks


Size: 14,800 sq m Architect: RSHP Client: Edrington Engineer: Arup


Construction: Robertson Construction Landscape: Gillespies


Lighting Design: Speirs + Major


Interiors: Atelier Bruckner, Concept Bars, Modo+


MARK POWER/MAGNUM PHOTOS FOR THE MACALLAN


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