Museum architecture

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...

Architecture / 28 Aug 2018

Immersive art and architecture meet at Helsinki’s Amos Rex Museum by JKMM

This week marks the opening of a major new art space for Helsinki designed by JKMM Architects. Both subtle and striking, Amos Rex is a new, much larger and more hi-tech venue for the Finnish capital’s private Amos Anderson art...

Architecture / 26 Aug 2018

France celebrates George Clemenceau, First World War prime minister with two architectural projects

This year France celebrates journalist and politician George Clemenceau, the country’s prime minister during the First World War with a series of projects and events paying homage to this key political figure rolling out across the country to mark the event. Nantes-based 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...