Tagged Cultural

OPEN architecture gives new life and cultural relevance to five abandoned aviation fuel tanks scattered across an empty industrial site along the banks of Shanghai’s Huangpu River. Over the course of six yea...

Design studio i29 drawn inspiration from the rich past of Amsterdam's Felix Meritis building to overhaul its spaces, which now feature bold-colored interiors. This unique building on Keizersgracht was built in...

Emerging design practice WallaceLiu has completed its latest project, the Chongqing Industrial Museum, which has been created amongst the remaining structures of a former steel factory in China. The new 7,500 s...

Why is art history important? The art in all its manifestations constitutes an essential characteristic that identifies the human being, has allowed transmitting the culture in all its extensions and has been a...

As we enter 2020, the fascination with the book reading is stronger than ever as the new authors always emerge while the classics are read by the younger generation with the same amazement as their parents once...

Architecture firms Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Gensler have completed the renovation and expansion of New York's Museum of Modern Art. The intervention has increased gallery space by 30%, provides visitors wi...

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...