Museum architecture

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...

Architecture / 10 Oct 2018

Snap! David Kohn’s V&A Photography Centre opens its doors

Launching its largest project to date, David Kohn Architects has just unveiled its work for the V&A Photography Centre, the London museum’s fully redesigned galleries dedicated to the art of observation. The prestigious commission was awarded to David Kohn...

Architecture / 5 Oct 2018

First look at the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston by Johnston Marklee

Ahead of the opening in early November of The Menil Drawing Institute by architects Johnston Marklee, we take first sneak peak at the finished building in Houston, Texas. Apart from a chance to lay our eyes on the city’s latest...

Architecture / 25 Sep 2018

We tour Thomas Phifer’s completed Glenstone Museum in Potomac

Cast among the McMansions of Potomac, Maryland – an affluent suburb of Washington DC – Glenstone is an improbable gem, a sprawling estate of 230 acres owned by art collector Mitchell Rales and his wife Emily. In 2006, the couple opened...

Architecture / 12 Sep 2018

Kengo Kuma’s V&A Dundee opens its doors to the public

Kengo Kuma cites the craggy coastline cliffs of north eastern Scotland as a key reference for the new V&A Dundee’s striking, angular form – but it wouldn’t go amiss to liken the new building to a boat, moored on...

Architecture / 31 Aug 2018

Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art opens in public baths complex converted by Assemble

The first images have been released for the hotly anticipated Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), designed by Turner Prize winning architecture collective Assemble, which opens to the public next week. It’s the first major building commission for the socially-conscious collective...