Public Buildings
Public Buildings
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Chicago’s new Obama Presidential Center isn’t a monument – it’s a momentThe 19-acre museum campus, conceptualised by architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien for Barack and Michelle Obama, provides a series of inspiring spaces that foster enlightenment, engagement and play on Chicago’s South Side
By Rima Suqi Published
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This humble building in small-town Texas houses one of America’s greatest private art collectionsIn its design for Arthouse, a small museum in Marble Falls, Texas, Lake Flato has created a veritable Hill Country kunsthalle
By Sam Lubell Published
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Brusk, a new cultural destination in Bruges, is everything an exhibition hall should be and moreWelcome to the Brusk exhibition hall, designed by Robbrecht en Daem and Olivier Salens architecten, the latest addition to the Bruges Museum Quarter
By Giovanna Dunmall Published
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Step onto the Southern Lookout for a dramatic Australian bushland experienceWith this new viewing platform, AJC Architects creates a contemporary visitor attraction amid bushland near Sydney, helping to transform a former quarry
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Tour a breathtaking Napa Valley winery where even the architecture has a sense of 'terroir'San Francisco practice Aidlin Darling Design ushers Robert Mondavi Winery, one of California's most storied wine producers, into a glorious new age.
By Beth Broome Published
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Does this ambitious new civic space have the power to transform downtown Pittsburgh?Arts Landing, a new park and sculpture garden located along the banks of the Allegheny River, offers much-needed green space for humans and birds alike
By Anthony Paletta Published
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Review: LACMA is a true gift to Los Angeles – you just have to see it in the right lightPeter Zumthor’s new David Geffen Galleries are at once grand and banal – just like LA, our critic writes
By Janelle Zara Published
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A new book marks 75 years of the Royal Festival Hall, London's iconic ‘egg in a box’‘Royal Festival Hall: A Living Icon’ tells the story of one of London's best-loved buildings – designed not for the privileged few, but for everyone
By Anna Solomon Published
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Experience LACMA’s new David Geffen Galleries – ‘It’s time to experiment’The David Geffen Galleries by Peter Zumthor open at LACMA; we take a tour and explore the relationship between art and architecture
By Michael Webb Published
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Brooklyn's most famous cemetery is for the living as much as it's for the dead. Its gleaming new visitor centre is proofBy combining a historic greenhouse with a brand new building, Architecture Research Office creates a new portal for Green-Wood Cemetery.
By Beth Broome Published
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Kengo Kuma will design the National Gallery’s huge new expansionLondon’s National Gallery has chosen the Tokyo-based architect to design a £350 million new wing
By Anna Solomon Published
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The White House ballroom design just cleared a significant hurdleAt a meeting of the National Capital Planning Commission, officials voted to approve the design of the 90,000 sq ft addition
By Anna Fixsen Published
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Kino International, Berlin’s beloved modernist cinema destination, comes back to lifeWe mark the reopening of the heritage-protected piece of modernist architecture in the heart of Berlin, following its thorough restoration by Dickmann Richter
By Hester Underhill Published
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What to do with a 6.5 million-piece photography collection? Netherlands Fotomuseum has a new homeThe national photography museum reopens this weekend (7 February), showing off its vast collection and its new location, Santos, a redesigned, listed warehouse on the Rotterdam waterside
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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‘Respected, restored and revered’: inside the renovation of one of San Francisco’s most historic synagoguesHaving just celebrated its centenary, Temple Emanu-El is now primed for the next 100 years, thanks to a sensitive update by Mark Cavagnero Associates
By David Nash Published
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New Winter Olympics ice rink in Milan is a modern take on a Roman amphitheatreWith a week to go before the Milano Cortina Winter Olympic Games kick off, we take a look at the new Milano Arena, designed by David Chipperfield Architects
By Tianna Williams Published
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The World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize 2026 goes to Ethiopia’s historic Africa HallFollowing a decade-long restoration by Australian firm Architectus, the building is a ‘landmark of modernism and a continuing stage for African diplomacy’
By Anna Fixsen Published
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The New Museum finally has an opening date for its OMA-designed expansionThe pioneering art museum is set to open 21 March 2026. Here's what to expect
By Anna Fixsen Published
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Houston's Ismaili Centre is the most dazzling new building in America. Here's a look insideLondon-based architect Farshid Moussavi designed a new building open to all – and in the process, has created a gleaming new monument
By Anthony Paletta Published
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fountainhead will be opened to the public for the first timeThe home, a defining example of the architect’s vision for American design, has been acquired by the Mississippi Museum of Art, which will open it to the public, giving visitors the chance to experience Frank Lloyd Wright’s genius firsthand
By Anna Solomon Published
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Futuristic-feeling Southwark Tube Station has been granted Grade II-listed statusCelebrated as an iconic piece of late 20th-century design, the station has been added to England’s National Heritage List
By Anna Solomon Published
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With a freshly expanded arts centre at Dartmouth College, Snøhetta brings levity to the Ivy LeagueThe revamped Hopkins Center for the Arts – a prototype for the Met Opera house in New York –has unveiled its gleaming new update
By Anthony Paletta Published
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The Grand Egyptian Museum – a monumental tribute to one of humanity’s most captivating civilisations – is now completeDesigned by Heneghan Peng Architects, the museum stands as an architectural link between past and present on the timeless sands of Giza
By Anna Solomon Published
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Spice up the weekly shop at Mallorca’s brutalist supermarketIn this brutalist supermarket, through the use of raw concrete, monolithic forms and modular elements, designer Minimal Studio hints at a critique of consumer culture
By Anna Solomon Published
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Rome’s Basilica di Massenzio has been reinvigorated with fresh architectural interventionsThe ancient landmark bridges past and present with a redesigned stage area, new flooring and interactive information points
By Anna Solomon Published
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Inside Kazakhstan’s Soviet-era Tselinny cinema – now a hub for contemporary cultureTselinny Center of Contemporary Culture, a modernist landmark redesigned for its new purpose by Asif Khan, gears up for its grand opening in Kazakhstan
By Giovanna Dunmall Published
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A brutalist mosque explores light and spirituality in tropical KeralaThis brutalist mosque by studio Common Ground explores concrete forms and top light as a symbol of spirituality in tropical, southern India
By Ravail Khan Published


