Tagged Cultural

International design and innovation office CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati and architect Italo Rota joined forces to transform a venerable former hospital complex in Modena, Italy, into one of the country’s major ...

Art, decor, and spirituality intertwine more than you may think. Art and decor find influences from everywhere in life - from events, spirituality, religion, seasons, the list could go on. Looking for spiritual...

It doesn’t matter whether you are a casual art buyer who visits galleries and exhibitions primarily for the love of art, or a hardcore collector that buys dozens of pieces each year – anybody with even a pa...

The national housing shortage is impacting everyone. Rent and home prices remain on the rise, causing people to look for new places to live within their monthly budgets. City developers have to accelerate their...

On the occasion of the exhibition "Raphael and the Domus Aurea. The invention of the grotesques", Stefano Boeri Architetti has unveiled the new entrance for the Domus Aurea in Rome. In the initial years of the...

MVRDV has proposed a radical transformation of Eindhoven's Heuvel shopping centre into a green cultural quarter. On its roof, the design features not only a park, but also a stacked cultural building under a "g...

Art History is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. This is a discipline where you can learn more about the various art forms of various times of history....

Going back in time to 2018, the National Kaohsiung Centre for the Arts, opened in Taiwan. The completion of the project, which was designed by Mecanoo, symbolized the transformation of Kaohsiung, once a major...

As the world turns into a global village and interconnectedness between people of diverse backgrounds increases, more people recognize the value of learning new languages. From working for a multinational corpo...

Italian architect Carlo Ratti and Itali Rota have unveiled MEET, a center for digital culture in Milan designed to maximize chance encounters between visitors. The project occupies a historic palazzo, known f...

MEETT, Toulouse’s new Exhibition and Convention Centre designed by OMA / Chris van Duijn, has been completed, becoming the third largest parc des expositions in France outside of Paris. The 155,000 m2 project...

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...