Museum architecture

Architecture / 28 Jun 2018

The Hood Museum of Art gears up to reopen following renovation

Works have been progressing fast at Tod Williams and Billie Tsien’s (TWBTA) renovation and expansion of Charles Moore’s Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire; and the project is set to open to the public on January...

Architecture / 16 May 2018

David Chipperfield takes stock with a monograph documenting 30 years of work

‘Architecture remains site-specific, not only in ideological terms, but above all in its locations,’ said Rik Nys, director of communications at David Chipperfield Architects, at the launch of the studio’s new monograph. Nys is the editor of the hefty tome designed by...

Art / 13 Mar 2018

A new Marrakech museum is bringing Africa’s flourishing art scene home

The Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL) has launched in Marrakech. The museum soft-launched to locals in 2016, opening its doors to global audiences in February 2018. It’s a calculated move that’s paid off: nearly two years on...

Travel / 22 Feb 2018

Maroc my world: Cottage Eight Films’ latest travelogue takes us to Marrakech

Our friends at Cottage Eight Films are no strangers to far-flung locales: jet-set filmmaking duo Cory Jacobs and Jason Schmidt most recently sent us a moving image postcard from the Alps. So to Marrakech, where they’ve captured an envy-inducing sun-drenched snapshot...

Architecture / 6 Feb 2018

Architect Richard Meier on his first black building and more

Richard Meier is one of the globe’s foremost – and most recognisable – modern architects; a pioneering, Pritzker Prize-winning visionary who has led his own practice since 1963. In the latest of Plane—Site’s enlightening Time-Space-Existence shorts, Meier eloquently muses on...

Art / 15 Jan 2018

China’s first contemporary photography museum is putting local artists in focus

One might expect a striking new art museum to pop up in Beijing or Shanghai – but not a small mountain city in northern China. The Lianzhou Museum of Photography (LMP), which opened in December, offers a window into the...

Architecture / 15 Dec 2017

The top buildings that shaped culture in 2017

The year of 2017 brought many new architectural offerings. Here, we celebrate the best examples of the smartest new builds, canniest restorations and smoothest extensions that are upgrading the experience of life in our cities and communities across the globe.

Architecture / 5 Dec 2017

Still life: the Glenstone Museum’s extension aims for a calming experience

In this age of intense stimulation overload, it’s encouraging to see a museum heading in the opposite direction. Thomas Phifer and Partners’ addition to the Glenstone Museum, set to open late next year in Potomac, MD, just under 15 miles...

Architecture / 1 Dec 2017

ICA Miami’s new home has all the right angles

December is a good month for Miami; the creative crowds flock to the Florida capital to bask in the winter sun and take in the cultural treats that the season’s fairs, such as Design Miami and Art Basel Miami Beach...

Architecture / 1 Dec 2017

Home depot: a construction update from the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum

’I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,’ recalls Sjarel Ex, director of Rotterdam’s Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, thinking back to when he first set eyes on MVRDV’s design for the institution’s new space. With the museum’s encyclopaedic, city-owned collection of...

Architecture / 17 Nov 2017

Art and architecture converge at the Saarland Museum’s new extension

Some time around the 1950s, the idea of ‘per cent for art’ was introduced in Germany, whereby a percentage of a public building’s costs were to be set aside for an artwork to be displayed along the architecture. It was, and is...

Architecture / 7 Nov 2017

Middle eastern star: Jean Nouvel’s Louvre Abu Dhabi makes its grand debut

Perched on a tip of land that juts out into the sea on Saadiyat Island, Jean Nouvel’s Louvre Abu Dhabi has the appearance of a hovering spacecraft that has arrived from a distant universe. Its armour-like domed roof, measuring 180m...