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Located on a quiet beach along the coast of Bohai Bay in northern China, the UCCA Dune Art Museum designed by OPEN’s founding partners LI Hu and HUANG Wenjing has opened to the public. Carved into a dune se...

Designed by KAAN Architecten on the outskirts of Aalst, Belgium, the new Crematorium Siesegem is a building with a comforting sequence of spaces in symbiotic relationship to its tranquil surroundings. The proj...

New York-based Studio Libeskind has recently completed the MO Modern Art Museum to display its collection of over 5,000 pieces of Lithuanian art, including rare Soviet-era pieces. Studio Libeskind together with...

Over the course of 15 months in 2010 and 2011, Christchurch, the largest city of New Zealand’s South Island, was devastated by four major earthquakes that toppled a city known for its arts, culture and surrou...

Inspired by Danish modernism, Danish firm COBE have reinterpreted the historic architecture of Steen Eiler Rasmussen in its Tingbjerg Library and Culture House. COBE has created a new social and cultural dest...

Designed by Dutch architects Mecanoo, the extraordinary architecture of the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts is inspired by the sinuous canopy created by clusters of banyan trees commonly found in the re...

Steven Chilton Architects has designed a forest of white columns and a latticed metallic roof covering the Wuxi Show Theater in Wuxi, China. Located close to Lake Taihu in Jiangsu Province, China, the Wuxi Show...

For all the things that humanity has accomplished, one of their crowning achievements is the architecture that we have collectively created. Humanity may have many flaws, but we are also capable of great beauty...

V&A Dundee, Scotland’s first design museum, will open to the public on Saturday 15 September 2018. Located along the waterfront in the city of Dundee in the northern part of Scotland, this museum is a br...

JKMM Architects has recently unveiled a series of domed subterranean galleries for the new Amos Rex museum in Helsinki. The Helsinki-based practice has renovated Lasipalatsi, a functionalist 1930s building in t...

British architect David Adjaye has completed New York's Museum of Spying 'SPYSCAPE', which invites its visitors to become undercover agents. SPYSCAPE is a new global destination for espionage that marries educ...

MVRDV was commissioned by Design Society Shenzhen to design the main gallery of The Sea World Culture and Arts Center, a new cultural hub and gallery founded by London’s V&A, now open to the public in She...

LAVA - Iceland Volcano & Earthquake Centre is a brand new interactive educational exhibition centre dedicated to the unique volcanoes and geology of Iceland. Located in Hvolsvöllur, just off Road 1, it’s...

A stunning 25-metre-long real blue whale skeleton has been suspended from the ceiling of the entrance hall at London's Natural History Museum –  giving visitors the opportunity to walk underneath the larg...

Amanda Levete and her practice AL_A have completed a new porcelain-tiled entrance and underground column free gallery at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The V&A Exhibition Road Quarter, which takes its nam...

One of Denmark’s top science centers, the Experimentarium has reopened its doors to the public with a striking new interior. Conceived by Danish architecture firm CEBRA, the spasce features a new 100 meter-lo...

John Pawson and OMA have completed the London’s new Design Museum, which is set to open this week. Dutch architecture practice OMA worked with London firm Allies and Morrison, and Arup engineers to restore th...

Articulated around a mirrored spherical auditorium, this library designed by Dutch firm MVRDV in the Chinese city of Tianjin is nearing completion. The 34,200 m2 building forms part of the new Binhai Cultural C...

Drawing inspiration from the Jomon period, Architecture studio Furuichi and Associates has completed a museum featuring a multi-faceted roofscape designed to evoke the inside of a cave. The Jomon ruins excavate...

The new San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is set to reopen to the public on Saturday, May 14, after three years of renovation. Completed by snøhetta, the expanded SFMOMA seamlessly integrates a 10-storey stru...

Japanese architects Sanaa have completed their curvy Grace Farms cultural center - dubbed the River - that spreads out over 80 acres in Connecticut. Starting from the top of a knoll, where a 20,900 square foot,...