AL_A completes London's V&A Exhibition Road Quarter

AL_A completes London’s V&A Exhibition Road Quarter

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...

London’s new Design Museum opens its doors

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...

First Look at MVRDV’s library in Tianjin

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...

Miyahata Jomon Museum

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...

First Look at new SFMOMA by Snøhetta 

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...

First Look At The SANAA’s Grace Farms, Connecticut

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,...

The Broad Museum Opens in Los Angeles

Los Angeles welcomes the newest addition to its contemporary art scene with the opening during the weekend of The Broad Museum. Commissioned by Eli Broad and his wife Edythe, the $140 million museum will show...

Vector Architects Designs A Seaside Library In China

Beijing studio Vector Architects designed the Seashore Library on the white sands of a beach in Nandaihe, a coastal region in eastern China. From outside, it looks like a weathered rock that is pure and solid; ...

Mecanoo Completes HOME Arts Centre in Manchester

Dutch practice Mecanoo has recently completed HOME, the new Manchester’s centre for international contemporary art, theatre and film, a catalyst for the developments around First Street, giving Manchester a n...

A Look Inside The New Armani/Silos Space

Armani/Silos is a living, open-to-the-public space illustrating Giorgio Armani’s professional experience, revealing a rich heritage of unique know-how: a space in which to design the future, a showcase of new...

A Look Inside the Whitney’s New Building

Designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano and situated between the High Line and the Hudson River, the Whitney's new building vastly increases the Museum’s exhibition and programming space, providing the firs...

Camera Chiara installation by Annabel Karim Kassar

Annabel Karim Kassar Architects shows in the Cortile 700 of the Università Statale in Milan "Camera Chiara", an architectural installation with two pavilions: Liwan and Camera Obscura. Invited to the Energy F...

Fondazione Prada Campus by OMA opens in Milan

On May 9, the new Milan venue of the Fondazione Prada designed by OMA opens to the public. The project, led by Rem Koolhaas, Chris van Duijn and Federico Pompignoli, is a milestone in OMA’s long-term collab...

Fangsuo Commune in Chengdu by Chu Chih-Kang

Fangsuo Commune is a multi-functional cultural space designed by Chinese practice Chu Chih-Kang Space Design in Chengdu's city center, China. It combines a bookstore, aesthetic pavilion, cafe, art gallery and ...

Blaibach Concert Hall by Peter Haimerl

To revitalize the center of Blaibach, Germany, Munich-based Peter Haimerl Architektur has designed the town’s concert hall (Konzerthaus Blaibach) as a solitaire of concrete, which emerges from the ground with...

Lucas Museum of Narrative Art by MAD Architects

MAD Architects unveiled the mountain-like design concept of Lucas Museum of Narrative Art to be located along Chicago’s waterfront. The architectural concept for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art (LMNA) ...