Tagged Cultural

COBE, the Danish architectural firm led by Dan Stubbergaard, has won an international competition for a new science center in the Swedish university city of Lund. The museum will be constructed in wood, is full...

Bjarke Ingels Group and FREAKS freearchitects have completed a major new cultural venue, called MÉCA, in southwestern France. The new 18,000 m2 Maison de l’Économie Créative et de la Culture en Aquitaine, ...

OMA is turning a historic Barbara Jordan Post Office in downtown Houston, Texas, into a complex featuring arts and music venue, workspaces and one of the world's largest rooftop parks and farms. Balancing prese...

The New Museum in New York has revealed plans for its second building, a seven-story, 60,000 square foot structure designed by OMA. This will be OMA’s first public building in New York City. The new structur...

There are territories, buildings, spaces that represent more than just their physical and material dimension. They have the ability to create sensations and appeal to our spirit and our imagination, in a consta...

The National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ) has opened to the public, introducing an unparalleled immersive experience housed within a new architectural masterpiece by Jean Nouvel. The Museum’s winding, 1.5-kilometer...

Turkish practice Melike Altınışık Architects – MAA has unveiled plans for a Robot Science Museum (RSM) in Seoul, which will be built using robots and drones. RSM is going to be one of the buildings in th...

Dutch firm Mecanoo has completed the Longgang Cultural Centre, a sculptural red building in Shenzhen that measures 400 meters in length (1,312 feet). Shenzhen has been growing rapidly since being named a ‘sp...

Bernard Tschumi Architects has completed the Tianjin Binhai Exploratorium, a 33,000-square-meter (355,200-square-foot) museum structure in Tianjin, China. Set to open in Fall 2019, the Exploratorium will showc...

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...