IARA   China   The Rural Memory Museum in Fengwu has become a symbol of the revitalization of culture and community in an area marked by population exodus, demographic aging, and lack of public facilities. It is part of the Fengwu JI rural-revitalization initiative

Team BLDG   China   Located in a mountain landscape accessible through winding roads, the remote town of Songzhuang in the Chinese province of Zhejiang is home to the Z Museum of textile art. Devoted to the theme of weaving, it was built from a brick-and-concrete house

Peter Zumthor SOM   United States   After years of planning, redesigning, and construction work, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has for a few days opened the doors of its new David Geffen Galleries, a winding concrete-and-glass building by the Swiss architect Peter Zumtho

Diller Scofidio + Renfro   United Kingdom   V&A East Storehouse has opened in London, offering an experience that breaks away from the traditional concept of a museum. Located in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, within the East Bank cultural quarter, this publicly accessible storage facility

Barozzi Veiga Tab Architects Koplamp Architecten   Belgium   Since the end of the 18th century and until 2006, year in which a modest museum on the history of the city was installed, Groeninge Abbey in Kortrijk had remained empty. In 2020, Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga won the competition called to transf

SMAR Architecture Studio   Lithuania   Kaunas, Lithuania’s second most populated city, has opened Mokslo Sala, a museum devoted to environmental sciences. Designed by SMAR Architecture Studio – headed by Fernando Jerez and Belén Pérez de Juan, working from offices in Spain and Australia –

MAD Architects   Netherlands   Rotterdam has opened Fenix, a new international art museum devoted to migration, in a 16,000-square-meter old warehouse on the Katendrecht peninsula. Built in 1923 and known as the San Francisco Warehouse, this space was originally used by the Hollan

Annabelle Selldorf   United States   The New York firm Selldorf Architects, in collaboration with Beyer Blinder Belle, has completed the renovation of the mansion on Fifth Avenue that houses the Frick Collection. The project has remodeled 5,574 square meters of museum space, and added 2

Donaire Milans Arquitectos   Spain   Occupying the Maestres de Calatrava Palace in Almagro, the museum needed an updating that would make it function better without sacrificing its identity, while expanding its gallery space. The architectural project has reinterpreted the existing spac

Christ & Gantenbein Bovenbouw Architectuur    Belgium   The firms Christ & Gantenbein (Switzerland) and Bovenbouw Architectuur (Belgium) have won the competition to design the new Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M KKA) on what is currently the site of the Court of Appeal in the Waalsekaai neighborhood

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Hungary   BIG Bjarke Ingels Group has won the international competition to design the home of the new Hungarian Natural History Museum in Debrecem, Hungary’s second-largest city. The 23,000-square-meter complex will go up within the centuries-old Great Fo

Jakob + MacFarlane   France   One aspiration of the avant-gardes was to break the box, but the Nouvelle-Aquitaine regional center of contemporary art only had to open it: a simple two-level volume was inserted into the central void of a disused printing press to expand the exhibi

MVRDV   Netherlands   Commissioned by the Port Authority of Rotterdam, Portlantis gives insight into the intricate workings of the Dutch city’s harbor. The recently inaugurated building – all of 3,533 square meters – is a stack of five rotated blocks that, besides providi

KAAN Architecten   Brazil   The Sueli Pontes ecomuseum of the Orla Piratininga park is located on the shores of the Piratininga lagoon in Niterói, near the bay of Rio de Janeiro. The project, a collaboration between the Dutch firm KAAN Architecten and the local studios UrbSP an

Liu Jiakun   China   Located at the foot of some old caverns used for the storage of liquors, a new facility makes it possible to immerse oneself in the mountainous site and get close to them. Thought out to establish a connection with both the slope and the views of the

Liu Jiakun   China   The paving stones that were used in the Forbidden City in Beijing came from a manufacturing plant whose centenary history is presented by premises that explore the poetics of baked brick. The museum features a marshy park, fenced in like traditi

Liu Jiakun   China   The facilities of the oldest Chinese distillery still in operation are surrounded by new production buildings with pitched roofs, where traditional fermenting and liquor-making practices are perpetuated. A courtyard connects the various volumes, whos

Liu Jiakun   China   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

Lina Ghotmeh   United Kingdom   The British Museum has announced that Lina Ghotmeh Architecture has by unanimous vote won the bid to redesign its Western Range galleries. The scheme drawn up by the Paris-based firm led by the Lebanese-born architect carried the day over the other f

Kerstin Thompson Architects   Australia   The Melbourne-based firm Kerstin Thompson Architects has made additions to the landscape of Bundanon, a 1,000-hectare property gifted to the Australian people by the artists Arthur and Yvonne Boyd in 1993, overlooking the Shoalhaven River, near Nowra

Zaha Hadid Architects Bureau Cube Partners   Serbia   Zaha Hadid Architects – in collaboration with Bureau Cube Partners – has won the anonymous competition to transform the old Milan Vapa paper factory in Belgrade into the new Nikola Tesla Museum. Encompassing 13,400 square meters, the project helps to

Finland   In the international competition for the new Finnish Museum of Architecture and Design, five of the 624 anonymously submitted schemes have been shortlisted for the second phase. They are: 96 Tyrsky, 351 Kumma, 486 Moby, 545 Tau, and 616 City, Sky and

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   The project is one of a series of interventions sponsored by the philanthropist Jonathan Ruffer and aimed at preserving the castle of Bishop Auckland, with a view to promoting the town – located at the confluence of the rivers Wear and Gaunless, in D

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Two publishers of the Penguin Group and another of the Planeta – the latter with two titles – compete in bringing art closer to the general public. For this they use different literary tools and take distinct approaches, but all four books reviewed h

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The art market is a good example of the conspicuous consumption theorized by Thorstein Veblen in The Theory of the Leisure Class, and two recent texts by outsiders document the extremes of ostentation, fraud, and opacity reached in our time. Orlando

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

There are buildings that are works of eloquent architecture, but in the extension of the National Gallery, the walls have spoken. Literally. Turning its back on Trafalgar Squqre, what we know as the Sainsbury Wing – because of the generous donation r

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

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

The Guardian   Jon Henley   For Unesco (United National Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) Francis Kéré has designed an immersive virtual museum of cultural objects stolen from museums, collections, and archaeological sites worldwide. The project aims to raise

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

The names of the finalists in the international competition to revitalize the Dallas Museum of Art have been unveiled. The six teams are: Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos (Madrid); David Chipperfield Architects (London); Diller Scofidio + Renfro (New York)

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

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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

With the intention of bringing together under one same roof the entire collection of the extinct Museum of Artistic Reproductions, the National Sculpture Museum made a call for competition that would result in a project to fit out the Renaissance pal

The Guardian   Benita Kolovos   The redevelopment will feature 13,000 sq metres of exhibition space, a rooftop terrace and restaurant. The final design of the National Gallery of Victoria’s contemporary arts space has been unveiled, with the state’s creative industries minister, Da

If every epoch has its own idea of history and thus builds its own museums, ours already has one which exemplarily captures the aspirations of the 20th century: the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which Renzo Piano has just completed in Hollywood

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