Metro Arquitetos   Brazil   The project to expand the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) – a work of the architect Lina Bo Bardi – is part of an overall renovation that began in 2014, in which the Brazilian firm Metro has participated from the start. Besides diverse actions carr

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   Situated between the Münsterhügel and the former outer city wall, the area known as St. Alban-Vorstadt represents one of Basel’s first early medieval expansions and has largely retained its historic character. In 2017, the Christoph Merian Foundation

Frida Escobedo   United States   The galleries devoted to the growing holdings of modern and contemporary artworks at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) will be undergoing a revamp, following a scheme, selected in 2022, by the Mexican architect Frida Escobedo. The first ima

Kéré Architecture   Togo   This complex devoted to the culture and historical heritage of the Ewé ethnic group is located in the city of Notsé, 80 kilometers from Lomé, the capital of Togo, in West Africa. Every first week of September since 1956, Ewé pilgrims have gathered in

One Plus Partnership   China   Just as Chillida paid tribute to the sea with geometrical shapes carved in alabaster, a moviehouse in Haikou alludes to the island’s coastal nature with similar abstraction and a heavy material presence: ceramic waves that form floors and ceiling vau

NP2F CENTRAL   Belgium   In the vibrant Molenbeek district, an art space linked to a laboratory for computer-aided manufacturing has been renovated with the idea of opening up to the city and bringing in the public. The state-of-the-art facilities of the workshops are preced

Herzog & de Meuron   South Korea   Seoripul Open Art Storage will serve as the collective archive space for the Seoul Museum of Art, the Seoul Museum of Craft Art, and the Seoul Museum of History. Beyond its role as a storage facility, it aspires to be a dynamic civic space for Seoul

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   The collaboration between the pharmaceutical company F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG and Herzog & de Meuron began in the 1990s. In the three decades since then, a series of buildings has been realized. A development plan devised in 2014 provides the urban gu

Sebastián Arquitectos   Spain   Fundación Ibercaja presented the project for the renovation of the Goya Museum of Zaragoza, following a scheme drawn up by the local practice of Sergio Sebastián Franco, winner of the anonymous ideas competition held for the purpose. The institution’

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture Andrea Tabocchini   Italy   The new Gallery of the Kings at Turin’s Museo Egizio has been inaugurated. The remodeling was carried out as part of preparations for the 2024 celebration of the institution’s bicentennial. In 2023, the scheme drawn up by OMA in collaboration with An

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios   United Kingdom   Shrewsburg Flaxmill Maltings was originally built in 1797 and served different purposes in the course of time, including as military barracks during World War II. The site closed in 1987. A work of Charles Bage, the listed building is known as the ‘g

Baile Menduiña del medio atelier Luis Manuel Pereira   Portugal   The team formed by the Spanish firm Baile Menduiña and two Portuguese practices – del medio atelier and Luis Manuel Pereira – has won the competition to refurbish and extend the National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), in Lisbon’s Chaido district.

Open Architecture   China   The design for this 50-meter-tall cultural hub with a cone shape took into account how the sun changes course during the year. Located in China’s northeastern city of Yantai, the Sun Tower was conceived as a giant sundial composed of two connected la

Jorge Almazán Architects Keio University Studiolab   Japan   An abandoned complex comprising two houses and three warehouses – where rice was once sold and stored – has been converted into an art center for the Japanese city of Ota, in Gunma Prefecture. Exhibition galleries, studios, and workshops are inserted

Shigeru Ban   Japan   On a site adjacent to the the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, completed by Yoshio Taniguchi in 1995, stands this new institution for the city in Aichi Prefecture, a work of the Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. The Toyota City Museum, built parallel to

labaula cooperativa   Spain   Until the time Eusebi Guëll moved his textile factory there and established a workers’ colony with the help of Gaudí, Santa Coloma de Cervelló was just a farming village on the banks of the Llobregat, and its modest past is still evidenced by the old

Sergison Bates architects EM2N Architekten noA architecten   Belgium   In January 1924, industrial designer André Citroën opened the brand’s first foreign branch on Place Sainctelette in Brussels. Years later, in 1933, and following the original sketches drawn by Citroën himself, plans were carried out to include a larg

ATAMA   Belgium   This industrial-like building, built in 1940 and formerly a fire station, has been transformed into a meeting point for the community. At the base of the tower, now home for a climbing club, the central plaza forms a market hall space that opens up t

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   The renovation works at the Grand Hotel Les Trois Rois in Basel involves several spaces. The inauguration of all the new spaces is scheduled for the summer of 2025. First to be completed is ‘The Council,’ a smoking room with two fireplaces, one on ea

TAO | Trace Architecture Office   China   In 2021, the company Librairie Avant-Garde commissioned the Beijing-based firm TAO | Trace Architecture Office to build a series of bookstores, including that of the Academia Chongzheng in Weishan and the recently completed one in Yangpo. Atop the Ga

Selgascano   China   The Spanish firm Selgascano has won the competition to build a cultural center in Beijing that will redefine the cityscape of Beijing’s Xicheng district. At ground level, a grand public exhibition space with transparent facades invites the community

Zaha Hadid Architects   Uzbekistan   The firm Zaha Hadid Architects has been announced as the designers, in collaboration with the engineers of Buro Happold, of a research facility named in honor of the 15th-century poet Alisher Navoi and to go up in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan.

Francisco Mangado Archipelago | baev   Belgium   Fair premises resulting from a 2019 competition – in the city of Liège, in Belgium’s French-speaking Walloon Region – have opened on the banks of the river Meuse. A work of the Navarrese practice of Francisco Mangado, in collaboration with the Belgia

The British Museum has announced which teams will be competing in the next stage of the international competition to renovate its Western Range galleries, an ambitious project of reimagining over a third of the London institution’s gallery space. The

The community center called Las Tejedoras (the weavers) in Chongón (Ecuador), a work of Natura Futura Arquitectura and Juan Carlos Bamba, has earned for them the Emerging Practice Award of 2024. Given by the Illinois Institute of Technoogy College of

Amidst the tide of challenges faced by the fashion industry under pandemic restrictions, OMA’s laboratory of ideas (AMO) took on the complex task of rethinking Bershka’s retail strategy. The first contact took place with the Bershka Flagship Milano,

The brutalist Grieg Hall with which the Norwegian city of Bergen honored its most universal musician will soon have another auditorium to show for, designed by the Danish firm Henning Larsen as a sinuous building next to the original. In addition to

The Spreeinsel, or 'Spree Island', became the representative seat of power of the German Empire on its southern side, and throughout the 19th century its northern end was transformed into a privileged cultural site: the Altes Museum by Karl Friedrich

Roy Nachum (1979, Jerusalem) works across disciplines and is known especially for paintings that go from surrealism to hyperrealism. Nachum rose to fame with the cover design for Rihanna’s Anti album of 2016, a work that included a fragment in Braill

On the campus of Brown University, the New York studio REX – with Joshua Ramus, a former partner at OMA, at the helm – has completed a versatile performing arts center that addresses the requirements of a renowned full student symphony orchestra and

If there is something we are still learning from Las Vegas, it is the fact that there are no limits to creativity in the search for publicity ploys and gimmicks. To its kitch imitation of Italy’s City of Canals, the casino and hotel The Venetian has

Architecture has had so many ties to the hard power of politics and religion that we can easily forget how it has also always, from the very beginning, served the soft power of science. Weren’t the Babylon ziggurats towers from which to observe the s

The German National Theater, the residences of the likes of Goethe, Schiller, Nietzsche, or Liszt, the Bauhaus Museum... Classical Weimar boasts a wealth of places to visit that tell of the city’s rich history, for not in vain is it on the UNESCO Wor

Part of an agritourism project located in the foothills of the Laurentian Mountains, a Nordic horticulture farm has on its premises added four micro-refuges designed by the Quebec-based architecture firm Atelier L’Abri. Shaped like isosceles triangle

Like a jewelry box, a treasure chest, or a Wunderkammer, the Royal Collections Gallery opened its doors in the city of Madrid last 28 June to showcase its extraordinary architecture, in addition to its no less extraordinary collection of objects whic

Ptolemy, the Greek pharaoh of Egypt, ordered the building of the Mouseion of Alexandria in the year 280 BC, and in doing this, what he was inventing was not so much a place where erudites could come to study under the sponsorship of the State, but ra

Palace matters take time. That is why two decades – practically the same as Philip II with his Escorial – have been necessary to complete the great center called to collect the treasures of the Spanish crown. The project was already considered during

Manuel Blanco   The new museum, one of the largest cultural complexes built in decades, showcases its collections along the two main levels, each devoted to one of the reigning dynasties. 

Emilio Tuñón   A linear volume is attached to the slope that historically marked the border of the city, establishing with its rigorous granite facade a formal and material dialogue with the Royal Palace. 

Pedro Moleón   The physical and symbolic magnitude of the work by Mansilla+Tuñón brings to life a long-held yearning of showing an art collection treasured for centuries by the kings of Spain. 

The firm 6a architects has publicized the first images of its ‘reimagining’ of Tate Liverpool, which was founded in 1988. The intervention on the 180-year-old building includes double-height exhibition galleries and an events venue on the ground flo

The Art Newspaper    The Centre Georges Pompidou will be opening a museum in Seoul in 2025, expanding its network of outposts that currently includes branches in Metz, Shanghai, and Málaga. The Paris-based institution has signed an agreement with the Hanwha Culture Found

Libraries are perhaps the most famous buildings in the West. They have probably also been the most useful. Certainly no one will question their worth as symbols of an entire culture, if not an entire civilization. For our civilization – or at least f

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Luis Fernández-Galiano   Published at the same time, the books that the art historian Estrella de Diego and the writer Antonio Muñoz Molina have devoted to the Prado may seem like parallel endeavors, but could not be more different. Both arose from invitations to give semina

Without shadow there is no light, and in full knowledge of this, the Sorolla Museum has put together an exhibition that showcases a less usual version of Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923), painter of a dazzling Mediterranean Sea, who at many points in the

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