Datong Art Museum by Foster + Partners
Construction has started on an art museum with four overlapping peaks that Foster + Partners have designed for Datong, China. More »
Tag: museums
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 »
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 »
Maidstone Museum East Wing
by Hugh Broughton Architects
A blanket of golden shingles clads the new wing that London studio Hugh Broughton Architects have added to a Tudor-style museum in Maidstone, England. More »
Titanic Belfast by CivicArts
and Todd Architects
Slideshow: faceted shards of anodised aluminium cover the four pointed hulls of this maritime museum in northern Ireland dedicated to famously ill-fated ship the RMS Titanic. 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 »
Alésia Museum visitor’s centre
by Bernard Tschumi Architects
Slideshow: a visitor’s centre with an ornate herringbone facade by Bernard Tschumi Architects opens this weekend on an archaeological site in central France. More »
Enzo Ferrari Museum
by Future Systems
Slideshow: a Ferrari automotive museum designed by the late Czech architect and Future Systems founder Jan Kaplický has opened in Modena, Italy. More »
Staedel Museum extension
by Schneider+Schumacher
Slideshow: German architects Schneider+Schumacher have completed an underground gallery that creates a bulge beneath the lawn of the Staedel Museum in Frankfurt. More »
Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture by David Adjaye and FAB
Construction will begin this week on the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC designed by architect David Adjaye. More »
Museum of Handcraft Paper
by TAO
Slideshow: this cluster of asymmetric wooden huts houses a museum dedicated to the craft of paper-making in a mountainside village in rural China. 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 »
Design Museum by John Pawson
London’s Design Museum have unveiled designs by British architect John Pawson for their new home in the former Commonwealth Institute building in west London. More »
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
extension by Renzo Piano
Architect Renzo Piano has completed a new wing at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, which opens next week. More »
The Timmelsjoch Experience Pass Museum
by Werner Tscholl
This faceted museum in the Alps by South Tyrolean architect Werner Tscholl is precariously cantilevered. More »