

The Barcelona-based studio of Benedetta Tagliabue, in collaboration with the Paris firm ilimelgo architects, has refurbished Le Palais des Fêtes, an old events hall in the city of Romainville, 10 kilometers from the French capital, enhancing the stru
Images have been unveiled of the museum that New York-based Diller Scofidio + Renfro has designed for the city of Adelaide in collaboration with the Australian firm Woods Bagot, having won the 2018 competition for the chance to build this facility wh
Zaha Hadid Architects has won the competition to build Phase II of the International Exhibition Center near Capital International Airport, in Beijing’s Shunyi District. Encompassing 438,500 square meters and rising 45 meters at most, the project enla
This theatre for Horris Hill School in Newbury, a town in the county of Berkshire, England, is built with cross laminated timber (CLT) and Viroc composite panels – with a mix of wood fibers and cement particles – whose reddish tones resemble those of
The Barcelona practice of Carles Enrich has transformed an old church in the Catalonian municipality of Gironella into a cultural center for the performing arts. Built in the mid-14th century, the religious construction was repurposed several times,
The firm headed by Li Hu and Huang Wenjing, Open Architecture, working from offices in New York and Beijing, has designed a campus for the Qingpu Pinghe International School in Shanghai, which has students aged 4 through 18. One of the buildings, the
On the shores of Lake Tai, in the city of Suzhou’s Wujiang District, known for its canals and located 110 kilometers from Shanghai, stands this cultural center by the French architect Christian de Portzamparc, surrounded by a 500-meter-long steel-and
A fruit of a 2014 competition, the building designed by the Japanese firm headed by Sou Fujimoto is structurally complete and should be ready to open its doors late in 2021. Like the New National Gallery designed by SANAA, it is part of the Liget Bud
The firm AZPML (Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Maider Llaguno, Ivaylo Nachev, Carlota Mendez, Claudia Baquedano, and Claudia Zucca) tied up with UKST (Yukyung Kim) in preparing a scheme that has won them first place in the international competition to build t
Located at Fort Belvoir (Virginia), 30 kilometers from Washington, DC, this 17,187-square-meter museum, a work of the firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), is fragmented into five monolithic pavilions differing in size – the tallest one standing
Designed by the London-based studio Steven Chilton Architects (SCA), Sunac Guangzhou Grand Theatre is located in the Huadu district of Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province. The concept for the theater is inspired by traditional silk embroidery, t
The Australian architecture firm Hassell has in collaboration with the Dutch studio OMA finished renovating the Museum for Western Australia in the heart of the city of Perth’s cultural precinct. Its new aboriginal nickname, ‘Boola Bardip’ (many stor
After twelve years of planning and building, the office of David Chipperfield has completed the new Kunsthaus Zurich extension, the fourth in the history of the neo-Greek building raised in 1910 by Karl Moser, who would be the first CIAM president. U
Desde su apertura, el Museo de Bellas Artes de Houston se ha nutrido de colecciones legadas por pudientes benefactores que han tenido que acomodarse en sucesivas ampliaciones del edificio neoclásico original. En la estela de las adiciones de Mies van
The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin is planning a $35 million campus redesign led by the firm Snohetta. It will feature architectural and landscaping improvements throughout the museum’s 200,000-square-foot grounds like a d
For a city planned ex novo as a paradigm of radical speculation, the firm AZPML has won the competition for the Korean Museum of Urbanism and Architecture (KMUA). Its scheme seeks to rethink the role of the discipline in this day and age, in the proc
Albeit decimated during the Shoah and attacked on several occasions in recent times, the Jewish community of Belgium asserts its presence and importance in the country’s history by means of a small museum which in the wake of an international competi
In collaboration with local firms PPA Architectures and Taillandier Architectes Associés, Rotterdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture has built MEETT, the city of Toulouse’s new convention and exhibition center. With its 155,000 square meter
Reminiscent of those rooms in mansions of the European nobility and bourgeoisie that were full of motley objects in a clutter, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen – Rotterdam’s leading cultural institution, which brings together the legacy of the two illus
The Beijing studio Zhu-Pei has built a museum adjacent to what is left of the thousand-year-old imperial pottery-making complex of the prefectural city of Jingdezhen, a porcelain capital of the world, China’s Sevrès. The building is composed of a ser
On marshland where lotus plants abound, a pair of mid-20th-century granaries that were in disuse have been brought back to life as a 2,448-square-meter art exhibition gallery, thanks to a project carried out by the Shanghai-based firm Roarc Renew, wh
The architect David Adjaye discusses his plans for an institution to house the looted treasures on their to return to Nigeria. In 1897, the British Army violently raided Benin City in what is now Nigeria, seizing thousands of priceless artifacts know
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