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BIG Turns a Chinese Garden Corridor Into an Entire Museum on Jinji Lake
At the Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art, BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group turns the covered corridor of a…
MAD’s Lucas Museum Looks Like It’s Floating — It’s Actually Built to Move
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, the long-anticipated building by Beijing-based studio MAD that opens in Los Angeles’s…
Pelli Clarke & Partners Sets the Net-Zero Lola Mora Center at the Foot of the Andes
Six marble sculptures stood outdoors in northwest Argentina for more than a hundred years, and the building Pelli…
MVRDV Stacks a Theatre, Museum, and Shops into One Colorful Shenzhen Village
In Shatoujiao, a stone’s throw from the Hong Kong border, Rotterdam-based practice MVRDV is building a mixed-use cultural…
MAD Turns Shenzhen Bay Culture Square’s Roof Into a Public Park
Shenzhen Bay Culture Square, the eight-years-in-the-making cultural complex by MAD, treats its own roof as the most important…
KM Design Fits a Vintage Car Museum Inside a Lviv Shopping Center, Ukraine
Before KM Design could arrange a single car inside VIK Cars Museum, the studio had to build the…
Oberon: OMA Wraps Its First U.S. Restaurant in Cork at New Museum
Oberon, OMA‘s first restaurant in the United States, treats the ground floor of New Museum’s new wing not…
OMA Renovated the Edo-Tokyo Museum Without Touching a Single Wall — and Shohei Shigematsu Says That Was the Point
The Edo-Tokyo Museum renovation by OMA is not a renovation in any conventional sense — it is a…
Foster + Partners Shapes a Shanghai Gallery Around a Flower Found Across the Street
In Shanghai‘s Putuo District, Foster + Partners has built a gallery that deliberately contradicts the scale of the…
Ma Yansong Completes “Shimmering” Hainan Science Museum in Haikou
The Hainan Science Museum, designed by Ma Yansong and his firm MAD Architects, has emerged as a landmark…
Peterson Rich Office Strips Back Historic Masonry for Condé M. Nast Galleries at The Met
Brooklyn-based architecture studio Peterson Rich Office has completed the Condé M. Nast Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of…
A “Vision of a Global Art Museum”: The David Geffen Galleries Opens at Lacma
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has officially opened the David Geffen Galleries, a 900-foot-long, organic…
O’Donnell + Tuomey Draws on Balenciaga’s Pattern Cutting for V&a East Museum
V&A East Museum arrives as a monumental addition to London’s cultural landscape, marking the completion of the ambitious…
Büro Ole Scheeren Reveals Five “Sculptural Volumes” Wrapped in Glass Tubes for Shenzhen Museum
Büro Ole Scheeren has unveiled the design for the Róng Museum of Art, a pivotal cultural anchor within…
OMA Completes “Prismatic” New Museum Expansion That “Kisses” SANAA’s Stacked Boxes in Manhattan
The New Museum’s expansion, designed by OMA’s New York office under the direction of Shohei Shigematsu, introduces a…
estudio Herreros Converts Madrid Industrial Warehouse Into “Urban Street” for Art
The transformation of a former industrial warehouse into SOLO CSV by estudio Herreros marks a significant evolution in…
Wulf Architekten Wraps Medieval Reutlingen House in “Diaphanous” Glass Shingles
A threshold between centuries, the historic row of houses at Oberamteistraße 28–32 in Reutlingen, Germany, stands as a…
Peter Pichler Designs “Transparent Fortress” to House South Tyrol’s Archaeological Heritage
The evolution of cultural preservation often unfolds behind closed doors, tucked away in sterile, utilitarian containers that prioritize…
Translucent ETFE skin wraps EMT Museum in Madrid by Luca Poian Forms and Frade Arquitectos
In the wake of the ambitious Madrid Río regeneration, a new civic landmark is set to redefine the…
Snøhetta Conceives Beijing Art Museum as a “Sculptural Lens” for the City
The evolution of Beijing’s urban identity is currently undergoing a profound transformation, moving beyond the monumentalism of the…
Barozzi Veiga Uses 92 Tons of Recycled Ceramic Waste for Abby Kortrijk Museum Pavilion
The art of architectural subtraction and the precision of contemporary insertion find a rare equilibrium in the heart…