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Visitor Centres Architecture : Buildings
post updated 13 February 2026
Visitor Center Designs
15 January 2026
Vatnajökull National Park Visitor Center, Iceland
Architects: Arkís arkitektar
Photos: Karl Vilhjálmsson
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February 29, 2024
Apple Park Visitor Center in California, Cupertino, USA
Architects: Foster + Partners
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November 27, 2023
Ozarks Education Center for Missouri State University, Arkansas, USA
Architects: BNIM
photo : Kelly Callewaert
The Bull Shoals Field Station is an existing research location for Missouri State University (MSU) students located within the Ozarks on the shores of Bull Shoals Lake and within the Drury-Mincy conservation area. To address the increasing demand for educational opportunities within the college and other organizations at the Bull Shoals Field Station, the Missouri State University Ozarks Education Center provides a new location for education and research by MSU faculty and students, other universities, visiting high school students, and non-profit organizations.
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Visitor Centre Building Designs News for 2012
Major contemporary Architectural Projects from around the World. Educational properties to visit:
4 July 2012
Giants Causeway Building, Northern Ireland
Design: Heneghan Peng Architects
photo : Marie-Louise Halpenny
Giants Causeway Building
This new building is located in a landscape of cliffs formed by hexagonal basalt stones. The visitor centre building helps to manage the beautiful and fragile landscape and is a resource to those who visit the site.
3 May 2012
Domkyrkoforum Visitor Centre, Lund, Sweden
Design: Carmen Izquierdo
photograph : Åke E:son Lindman
Domkyrkoforum Visitor Centre
The new Domkyrkoforum visitor centre, facing the Cathedral in the Swedish city of Lund, uses Aurubis Architectural’s Nordic Brass panels to create a series of contemporary forms, generating new vistas and public spaces within its historic setting.
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Visitor Centre Building – Recent Projects
23 Nov 2010
Pannonhalma Visitors Center, Hungary
Design: RS | Roeleveld – Sikkes Architects
photo : Tamás Bujnovszky, János Szentiváni, Hans Molenkamp
Pannonhalma Visitors Center
The monastery has been a beacon for culture and crafts for over a thousand years. The monastery grounds of the Benedictine order house the finest examples of religious art, crafts and architecture.
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July 3, 2009
United States Capitol Visitor Center, Washington, DC, USA
Design: RTKL Architects
photograph © RTKL.com/David Whitcomb
United States Capitol Visitor Center
As the seat of the nation’s legislative branch, the U.S. Capitol is one of the most visited historic buildings in the world. With knowledge garnered from a dozen years of work with the Architect of the Capitol, RTKL designed a facility that enhances visitor reception experience and education, strengthens building security and the U.S. Capitol‘s functionality while preserving an atmosphere of free public access for the more than three million visitors who tour the U.S. Capitol annually.
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Visitor Center Design Competition
Newark Visitor Center Project, New Jersey, USA
Newark Visitor Center Competition
NVC was an international design competition. The partnership of AIA Newark & Suburban, Emerging Professionals and the Young Architects Forum invited designers from all over the world to find innovative, visionary and compelling proposals for Newark, New Jersey’s Visitor’s Center.
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Modern Visitor Centre Buildings Designs
Featured Visitor Center Architecture, alphabetical:
Alnwick Castle Gardens Visitor Centre, Northumberland, northeast England, UK
Hopkins Architects
building photo © Adrian Welch
Alnwick Castle Visitor Centre
Arctic Culture Centre, Norway
Design: a-lab
picture from architect office
Arctic Culture Centre
City of London Information Centre, England, UK
make architects
image © make architects practice
City of London Information Centre
Culloden Battlefield Memorial Centre, near Inverness, Northern Scotland, UK
Gareth Hoskins Architects
photo © Ewen Weatherspoon
Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre, Scotland
David Douglas Centre, central Scotland
picture from Cowco
David Douglas Centre
Fountains Abbey Visitor Centre, Yorkshire, northern England, UK
Edward Cullinan Architects
picture © Adrian Welch
Fountains Abbey Visitor Centre
Giant’s Causeway Visitor Facilities, Northern Ireland, UK
heneghan.peng.architects
picture from the National Trust
Giants Causeway Visitor Centre
NYC Information Center, New York City, NY, USA
WXY architecture + urban design
picture from SGLA
NYC Information Center
Petra Visitors Centre, Jordan
Design: Edward Cullinan Architects
picture from architects studio
Jordan building
Snowdon Summit Visitor Centre, northwest Wales
Design: Ray Hole Architects
picture from architect firm
Snowdon Summit Visitor Centre
Woodhorn Colliery, Ashington, Northumberland, Northeast England, UK
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Design: RMJM Architects
image : Keith Hunter
Woodhorn Colliery
More modern Visitor Centres Buildings designs online soon.
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Contemporary Visitor Centres Architecture Designs – no images/links, alphabetical:
Cardiff Bay Visitors Centre, Cardiff waterfront, south Wales
1990
Design: Will Alsop Architect
Water of Leith Visitor Centre, Edinburgh
Design: Malcolm Fraser Architects
Water of Leith Visitor Centre
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