Museum architecture

Open Architecture transforms airport facilities into Tank Art Park in Shanghai

The point where old and new meet is often the space where some of the most interesting architectural experiments take place; and Shanghai’s brand new Tank Art Park is a case in point. The city’s latest cultural space is the...

Architecture / 1 week ago

Windermere Jetty by Carmody Groarke pushes the boat out

If mention of the Lake District conjures up images of grand waterfront villas, Great British summer holidays, and lush, greenery against a backdrop of snowy peaks – that would be correct. Yet that’s not all this scenic part of the UK...

Architecture / 4 Feb 2019

Foster + Partners’ Norton Museum expansion rediscovers its West Palm Beach identity

The mood is light and optimistic in West Palm Beach despite Trump’s arrival to Mar-a-Lago; the Norton Museum has reopened to the public with a new design by Foster + Partners. Respectful of site and context, Norman Foster has artfully reworked...

Architecture / 23 Jan 2019

The Hood Museum of Art reopens following renovation by Tod Williams Billie Tsien

The carefully renovated and expanded Hood Museum of Art in Hanover, New Hampshire, US is gearing up to throw open its doors to the public. The refreshed institution, which is owned and operated by Dartmouth College, has been given a two-year-long makeover...

Architecture / 2 Jan 2019

Switzerland’s Muzeum Susch opens in a redesigned rural monastery

Located among the picturesque remnants of an old rural monastery in the idyllic and remote setting of the Engadin valley, Switzerland’s latest home for the arts, Muzeum Susch, has opened its doors to the public. Designed by Zurich-based architecture firm Voellmy Schmidlin Architektur – led...

Architecture / 23 Nov 2018

Weimar’s new Bauhaus Museum set to open in April 2019

To mark the 100 years since the birth of the Bauhaus art, design and architecture movement, Germany is restoring and renovating its existing Bauhaus buildings and opening two new museums dedicated to the school and its revolutionary output. The first...

Architecture / 16 Nov 2018

Open Architecture’s UCCA Dune is a constellation of concrete caves

A curious landscape of primitive concrete caves tucked beneath one of the last remaining sand dunes in Beidaihe, a seaside resort some 300 km from Beijing, is the latest cultural addition to the Aranya Gold Coast Community, a vast coastal...

Architecture / 1 Nov 2018

The Menil Drawing Institute by Johnston Marklee throws open its doors in Houston

It’s been a good couple of years for Los Angeles-based practice Johnston Marklee – headed by partners Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee. After the completion of a couple of awardwinning houses (including Vault House, which scooped Best Private House at the...

Architecture / 1 Nov 2018

V&A unveils two new designs for east London cultural hub

New York-based Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Dublin practice O’Donnell + Tuomey have revealed designs for their new buildings for the V&A. Both buildings are earmarked for London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. They are due to open in 2023...

Architecture / 23 Oct 2018

Daniel Libeskind’s MO Museum opens in Vilnius, Lithuania

This weekend saw the four-day celebration of the opening of the brand new Modern Art Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania. The striking new structure, designed by New York-based Daniel Libeskind, ‘is conceived as a cultural “gateway” connecting the 18th century grid...

Architecture / 10 Oct 2018

Stockholm’s Nationalmuseum reopens after five year renovation

After five years of closure, the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, Sweden’s Museum of Fine Arts and Design is set to reopen to the public on 13 October. A renovation by Wingårdhs and Wikerstål Arkitekter has transformed the exhibition spaces and created...