Plans to build the Las Vegas Museum of Art in the heart of the largest city of the state of Nevada have been approved. The new institution, with 8,360 square meters, will be located in the area of Symphony Park, close to the Discovery Children’s Muse
The rectangular volumes that remain by Floralia Hall are drastically altered, making the original neoclassical appearance disappear. This huge central nave functions as an interior extension of the public space surrounding it, now transformed into a
A bold structure of steel and wood, resting on new foundations at independent points, stretches over the existing building like a bridge. Not only does it extend the area of the museum, but it also increases the headroom for the upper floor galleries
Two barrel-shaped volumes are integrated into the layout of the park to free up more green space, preserving the autonomy of the Floralia Hall both in form and in function. The two buildings reinterpret the historic structures flanking this central r
The cores and facades of the extension are joined to form the main structure. The slabs and standardized roofs favor natural lighting through a continuous window that offers the option of controlling how much light is used in each room...
The Audeum (Audio Museum) is located in Seoul’s Gangnam district. The exterior skin presents hanging aluminum louvers that overlap vertically to create a play of changing shadows. The random and sculptural cascade arrangement makes it possible to em
The French studio of Nicolas Moreau and Hiroko Kusunoki, in collaboration with Mexican firm Frida Escobedo Studio and AIA Ingénierie, has won the competition to carry out an overhaul of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The steel-and-glass museum built b
The British firm David Kohn Architects has won the competition to redesign SMAK, the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent, in collaboration with the Belgian practices no Aarchitecten and Asli Cicek. The objective is to redefine the museum’s
The FENIX Museum of Migration is the result of a commission from the Droom en Daad Foundation – a Netherlands institution that is helping redefine Rotterdam for the 21st century through the development of new kinds of arts and cultural institutions.
A Manueline abbey gains back its original configuration when freed of additions made over time that overburdened its loadbearing structure and had the effect of distorting its simple proportions.
The Counts de Puñonrostro Foundation has unveiled its project for the refurbishment of a building it owns at Calle Dauíz 16 in Segovia. It had served different purposes in the past (including for a caps factory), and been abandoned in recent decades.
The Kunstsilo Art Gallery has opened in what was a grain silo raised in the 1930s, in the Norwegian city of Kristiansand. The transformation of the huge agricultural facility built with reinforced concrete to harbor a collection of over 5,500 Nordic
The Museum of San Isodoro de León opens its doors after undergoing a full refurbishment process. The project enhances the historical and artistic importance of the Real Colegiata de San Isidoro de León, an iconic example of European Romanesque style,
Located in one of the courts of Trinity Hall, one of Cambridge University’s oldest colleges, the WongAvery Gallery replaced a modest shelter built early in the 20th century – attached to the south wall of Avery Court – with a facility for music educa
A team led by the firm a-fact (Andrea Rossi, Giovanni Sanna, Pierluigi Turco) has won the international competition to build a Museum of Contemporary Art, a Natural History Museum, and a Park of Arts & Culture in Podgorica, the capital of Montene
The extension is conceived as a composition of several volumes clad with the typical brick of the area, but reinterpreted with a lighter appearance, as an openwork, which adds visual appeal and dynamism to the facade by creating an interplay of light
The materials proposed for the extension establish a continuum with the original building, on which it rests lightly with a glass-topped gallery while preserving its identity with a fragmented facade that adapts the scale of the museum to that of the
A Renaissance prince in the full sense, Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy was besides a capable statesman a true lover and patron of the arts. It was his treasure of classical sculpture that would form the core of the archaeology museum founded in the 18th
The old electrical station of Malmö, in the south of Sweden, has been transformed into an art museum with an informal and experimental character that would complement the main museum in Stockholm. The greatest challenge posed by the project, (in addi
The Spain-based practice of Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga – in collaboration with the Swedish architects Hermansson Hiller Lundberg and the landscape architect Peter Korn – has won the competition to revamp the Göteborgs Konstmuseum. A half-bu
In the country’s cultural capital, an ethnograhic center founded in 1909 moves into a long container that aspires to be a symbol of national prosperity in the wake of regained independence. The project questioned the competition rules and called for
Three intersecting spheres form and carve the building, breaking it up into two parts: one is like a full moon and other like a crescent moon wrapped around it. That is the art museum that Herzog & de Meuron designed for the art and culture insti
This kilometer-long museum in Rizhao, a city in China’s Shandong province, rises on an artificial lake with openings to let water in, flooding the floor. The 20,000-square-meter construction presents a dynamic of varying widths and heights. The obje
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 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
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
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
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.
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.
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 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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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 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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Delicate, beguiling and studded with trees, the museum has landed in a Budapest park – but behind it is a controversial €1bn vision by rightwing populist leader Viktor Orbán. A great big crumpet appears to have landed in the middle of Budapest’s City
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