New additions to the Jianchuan museums, which house the country’s largest private collection, are three interconnected pavilions harboring the memory of the Cultural Revolution. Like temples in bustling areas, the galleries showing historical items a
The Nantes-based architecture firm Raum has refurbished and expanded a community swimming pool and spa center in Saint-Méen-Le-Grand, a picturesque locality in the northwestern French region of Brittany. There is a new sports pool and aqua-leisure ar
In 2019, a proposal drawn up by Mónica Alberola in collaboration with María Casariego, Enrique de Teresa, and Guiomar Martín won the competition to expand and renovate pavilions 7 and 8 of the School of Health in Madrid, within the Chamartín campus o
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
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’
In a limited span of time, during summer vacation, the Nanhai Primary School in Shenzhen, China, was renovated. A series of operations were carried out to make the most of all useful floor area, activate residual spaces, and install solar protection.
More than a hundred years old, this two-apartment building set between party walls in the old quarter of Artá has been renovated and enlarged in the wake of a painstaking detailed study focused on reusing existing elements. The project came to fruiti
The Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian has reopened after almost four years of renovation works. It is located on the campus of the Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian. The main feature of the intervention carried out by Kengo Kuma – in collaboration with t
The Norwegian studio Snøhetta and the local firm Alley Poyner Macchietto were commissioned to expand and renovate the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, which recently reopened. The institution had an original building completed in 1931, a work of the archi
Completed in 1941, the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters was the first school to go up on the University of Zaragoza’s San Francisco campus. Designed by Regino Borobio and José Beltrán, it stretched out longitudinally with a symmetrical layout. Subse
Located in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, a warm dry region, this project involved renovating and enlarging a rural school built for the children of the workers of the Penna cement factory. Forming a multipurpose shaded area accessible
The project involved renovating, refurbishing, and expanding the property at Passeig de Sant Joan 110 in Barcelona, in accordance with a new program of sixteen flats and two duplex units added on the roof. The original house was commissioned by Dolor
The Robert Olnick Pavilion, designed by the architects Alberto Campo Baeza and Miguel Quismondo, is an extension of the museum Magazzino Italiam Art, in Cold Spring (New York). Arranged perpendicularly to the existing building, separated from it, the
In the German municipality of Allensbach, near Konstanz, the Hegne convent complex includes the Marianum secondary school, where a new annex was needed to accommodate additional facilities. The new building, 109 meters long and about 12 wide, directl
The 154-year-old American Museum of Natural History across the upper west side of Central Park has a new wing that establishes a fluid connection among the institution’s various buildings. The new educational programs of the AMNH are organized around
The town of Fuentes is nestled in the Sevillian countryside, in the Guadalquivir valley. Settlements from different periods have left a rich cultural and monumental heritage, further enhanced by its landscape and agricultural history. Within the Prog
Construction work on the extension of the Bodegas La Horra facilities, in the Ribera del Duero comarca of Burgos province, has begun. Integrated between hills crowned by pines, marjorams, lavender, and rockroses, the half-buried new winery boasts a
Upon the death of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands in 1962, Het Loo – the summer residence of the House of Orange-Nassau – became a property of the State, and some time later it was turned into a museum. Through an extensive renovation, KAAN Archi
The ‘Helix,’ the new gallery carved into the earth, spirals around a sunken garden with an ancient olive tree at the center. This space creates a new entrance to the museum, and includes an auditorium, a cafeteria, and galleries for temporary exhibit
The entrance ramp occupies the central courtyard as visitors descend from street level to the ‘Rooms of Light’ below. Light is filtered through the coffered ceiling structure that floats overhead, naturally illuminating the interior...
The history of the museum, which is about burying, concealing, and revealing objects, inspires the new design. The ground is elevated to unveil a large subterranean space, a route of the senses defined by a gradient of light and warm, earthy textures
The principal project decisions are to design a ‘living garden’ based on the theme of archaeologies; to highlight the original colonnade facade; to extend the existing gardens; and to build a glass canopy as well as peripheral terraces...
The metal roof, a reinterpretation of the Greek agora, presides the garden and marks the start of the stoa, which functions as an axis through the park, the existing building, the historic courtyards, and the exhibition spaces...
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
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
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
A wit in the publicity department of the Museum of Modern Art suggested that the new MoMA was like a favourite golf course to which, to your surprise, nine holes had been added. At a cost of $450 million, the distinguished New York architectural firm
If we were to pinpoint an emblem for Spain’s successful public healthcare system, one sure candidate would be La Paz Hospital in Madrid. At least that is the opinion of the institution’s authorities, who, faced with a dire need for more space, found
A currently fashionable theme – and real-estate attraction – in the world of Chinese architecture is the renovation of hutongs, those alleys of popular dwellings of yore, closely huddled around a courtyard, especially in the country’s capital. Ma Yan
New York has just seen the opening of the Museum of Modern Art renovation and expansion, carried out by the local firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Since Goodwin and Stone raised the original building in 1938, this is the fifth enlargement to be carried
The British architect Norman Foster and the local office of Luis María Uriarte are the winners of the competition to renovate and enlarge the Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao, lately one of the most coveted projects in the context of cultural buildings
Headed by Jeanne Gang (one of this year’s 100 most influential people in the world, according to Time magazine), Studio Gang – in collaboration with three other architecture and engineering companies – has won the competition to carry out the renovat
From the great greenhouses of the 19th century to the ‘climatops’ proposed by Richard Buckminster Fuller in the mid-20th century, taming nature to reproduce it in artificial environments has been one of the major impulses of modernity. So has it been
The renovation and expansion of the museum in West Palm Beach (Florida) has added new galleries and much needed facilities for its visitors, while reinstating the axial arrangement and clarity of circulation of the original 1940’s building. Above all
Architecture parlante was an invention of French architects of the Enlightenment by which buildings explained their functions through their forms, tying up the rational with the expressive. From this arose projects of Étienne-Louis Boullée and Claude
Saturado y cada vez menos competitivo, el Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad México (AICM) necesita una urgente ampliación: 470.000 metros cuadrados en un terreno aledaño a la actual infraestructura, que costarán unos 10.000 millones de dólares. L
The Clark Institute harbors one of the most important private art collections in the United States, but few people know that it has prosaic origins, as so many fortunes in fact do. When, after wandering in the Far West, Robert Sterling Clark moved to
Mackintosh is to Glasgow as Gaudí is to Barcelona: no architecture guide is complete without mention of the most admirable example of Arts & Crafts, the Glasgow School of Art, nor without naming it Scotland’s most important modern construction. T
Veintitrés años después de la apertura de la cristalina pirámide de Ieoh Ming Pei, el Museo del Louvre ha inaugurado la segunda gran intervención arquitectónica contemporánea, proyectada por el francés Rudy Ricciotti y el italiano Mario Bellini, que
La ampliación de una vieja y pesada estructura muraria con un porche nuevo y ligero emplazado donde una vez hubo un cobertizo para el ganado, ha sido la clave del proyecto de rehabilitación de una masía situada en la localidad gerundense de Santa Pau
Profetas en su patria, Herzog & de Meuron son los autores de la rehabilitación del Museo de las Culturas de Basilea. Construido en 1849 sobre el solar de un antiguo monasterio, el Museo fue el primero de su tipo en la ciudad, y alberga una colección
Tras permanecer veintidós años cerrado, el Museo de Historia Militar de Dresde (Alemania) reabre sus puertas con una nueva imagen diseñada por el neoyorquino Daniel Libeskind. Una cuña triangular de cinco plantas se inserta en el edificio preexistent
When the chapel of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp showed its face in 1955, it shocked the architectural world. That Le Corbusier-for many modern architects, the embodiment of the prophet of rationalist architecture-had designed such an aberration was
El estudio danés BIG ha resultado el ganador del concurso para la rehabilitación y ampliación del denominado Trantsitlager, un edificio industrial de los años 1960 y 18.000 metros cuadrados, situado en Dreispitz, una zona de la ciudad suiza de Basile
El estudio suizo Diener & Diener es el responsable del proyecto de reconstrucción del ala este, recientemente inaugurada, del Museo de Historia Natural de Berlín, uno de los más importantes del mundo por su colección de 25 millones de especímenes zoo
Cuatro años ha durado el proceso de rehabilitación y ampliación del Museo San Telmo, que se acaba de inaugurar en San Sebastián. La intervención, de los madrileños Fuensanta Nieto y Enrique Sobejano, recupera el edificio original, un convento dominic
