Marina Abramović Institute by OMA
Architects OMA have unveiled plans to convert a former theatre in Upstate New York into a performance institute commissioned by Serbian artist Marina Abramovic. More »
Tag: cultural buildings
The Arch
by 3XN
Slideshow: Danish architects 3XN have completed a riverside cultural centre in Norway with glass hills outlined on its facade. More »
New Institute for Contemporary Art
by Steven Holl Architects
New York architect Steven Holl has unveiled designs for a new institute for contemporary art at the Virginia Commonwealth University campus in Richmond. More »
Heidelberg Castle Visitor Centre
by Max Dudler
We love projects that involve castles. Windows are set within two-metre-deep recesses in the stone walls of this castle visitor centre in southwest Germany by Swiss architect Max Dudler. More »
SeaCity Museum by Wilkinson Eyre Architects
These reconstituted-stone sails belong to the second museum we’ve featured this month dedicated to ill-fated liner the RMS Titanic, following one shaped like four hulls. More »
Civic Centre in Palencia
by Exit Architects
Slideshow: our second project this week by Madrid studio Exit Architects is a civic and cultural centre inside a former prison in Palencia, Spain. More »
Easter Sculpture Museum
by Exit Architects
Slideshow: Madrid studio Exit Architects designed this concrete sculpture museum behind the retained facade of an old house in southern Spain. More »
Domkyrkoforum by
Carmen Izquierdo
Slideshow: a bronzed box window peers out like a periscope from the auditorium of this cathedral visitor’s centre in Lund, Sweden, by architect Carmen Izquierdo. More »
Xinjin Zhi Museum by Kengo Kuma
and Associates
Slideshow: this museum in Xinjin, China, by Japanese architects Kengo Kuma and Associates appears to be screened by rows of floating tiles. More »
Church in La Laguna
by Menis Arquitectos
Slideshow: the concrete walls of this church in Tenerife are roughly lined with crushed volcanic rocks. More »
Jerwood Gallery
by HAT Projects
Slideshow: British architects HAT Projects have completed a seaside gallery in Hastings, England, with a shimmering exterior of black glazed tiles. More »
Bajo Martin County Seat
by Magén Arquitectos
Light permeates this civic hall designed by Magén Arquitectos in southern Spain through blocks of alabaster in the facade. More »
The Kimball Art Centre
by BIG
Slideshow: architects BIG have won a competition to renovate and extend an art centre in Utah with proposals that will be built from railway sleepers reclaimed from the Great Salt Lake. More »
Stadtmuseum Rapperswil-Jona extension
and renovation by :mlzd
Hundreds of circular holes puncture a faceted bronze extension to a fortified museum in Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland, that is set to reopen next month. More »
Camelot at Cockfosters by Råk-Arkitektur
Swedish studio Råk-Arkitektur have won a competition to design a cultural centre for a north London site believed to have once been the legendary realm of King Arthur. More »