Daylight floods into the reading rooms of this Chilean library though the high level windows of faceted ventilation stacks. More »
Tag: cultural buildings
The Timmelsjoch Experience Pass Museum
by Werner Tscholl
This faceted museum in the Alps by South Tyrolean architect Werner Tscholl is precariously cantilevered. More »
The Kimball Art Centre by Brooks + Scarpa
A ridged cloak of glazing would surround the extension to an art centre in Utah proposed by Californian architects Brooks + Scarpa. More »
Ordos Museum
by MAD
Herta and Paul Amir Building at the Tel Aviv
Museum of Art by Preston Scott Cohen
Dezeen in Israel: here are some images of the recently opened new wing at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, which has a dramatically faceted atrium piercing its centre. More »
The Culture Yard by AART Architects
Museum of Liverpool by 3XN

Here is a complete set of photographs of the heavily criticised Museum of Liverpool by Danish architects 3XN, which opened to the public last month. More »
Auditorium and Congress Palace Infanta
Doña Elena by Estudio Barozzi Veiga

A seafront auditorium in southern Spain has concave walls that resemble the deflated cheeks of someone taking a deep breath (photographs by Julien Lanoo). More »
Nestlé Chocolate Museum by Metro
Museo ABC by Aranguren + Gallegos

Spanish architects Arranguren & Gallegos have converted a brewery in Madrid into a museum with an underground gallery and triangular windows. More »
Messner Mountain Museum by EM2
Extension to the Serlachius
Museum Gösta by MX_SI
Museum in Palmiry by WXCA
Cité de l’Océan et du Surf by Steven Holl
and Solange Fabião

Steven Holl Architects have collaborated with Brazilian architect Solange Fabião on this wave-shaped museum of the sea in Biarritz, France, which opened this week. More »
Kanazawa Umimirai Library by Kazumi Kudo and
Hiroshi Horiba / Coelacanth K&H Architects

Around 6000 holes puncture the concrete exterior of this library in Kanazawa, Japan, by Kazumi Kudo and Hiroshi Horiba of Japanese firm Coelacanth K&H Architects. More »







