Mecanoo proposes sinuous maritime museum for Rotterdam harbour
Mecanoo has unveiled its proposal for the Maritime Center Rotterdam, a spiralling museum that will be wrapped by walkways and built partially below the water in Rijnhaven harbour. More
Mecanoo has unveiled its proposal for the Maritime Center Rotterdam, a spiralling museum that will be wrapped by walkways and built partially below the water in Rijnhaven harbour. More
Jura limestone wraps around the concrete interiors of David Chipperfield Architects' long-awaited extension for the Kunsthaus Zurich museum in Switzerland. More
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a theatre in Guangzhou, China, and sharing their views on other top stories. More
Architecture studio ZJA has designed the concept for a museum in the Netherlands to house the wreck of the historic ship Amsterdam, which is currently sunk off the coast of Hastings, UK. More
We're continuing our review of the year with the museums and galleries that turned our readers' heads in 2020, including a minimalist structure by Álvaro Siza and a spiralling pavilion by BIG. More
Steven Chilton Architects has designed a theatre in Guangzhou, China, which has a shape informed by the city's historical connection to silk and is imprinted with patterns that represent its current tattoo culture. More
Architecture firms Hassell and OMA have renovated a group of old buildings in Perth, Australia, and stitched them together with protruding metal-clad structures to create the WA Museum Boola Bardip. More
Eight domed structures built from rammed earth will distinguish the Thabo Mbeki Presidential Library that architecture studio Adjaye Associates is developing in Johannesburg, South Africa. More
Translucent glass tubes meet with curvy roofs "imagined from cloud circles" in this art museum US firm Steven Holl designed for Museum of Fine Arts Houston. More
Studio Zhu-Pei housed galleries within vaulted red-brick structures to create the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum in Jiangxi province, China. More
Monolithic volumes clad in stainless steel reflect the trees surrounding the National Museum of the United States Army, which architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has completed in Virginia. More
These photographs by architect Alessandra Cianchetta capture the construction of the tilted and patterned walls of the extension OMA has designed for a Jewish temple in Los Angeles, California. More
Feilden Fowles and J & L Gibbons have unveiled plans to overhaul the gardens at London's Natural History Museum to create a hub for education and biodiversity called the Urban Nature Project. More
New photos have been released of Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando's cylindrical He Art Museum, which has reached completion in Guangdong, China. More
A white-concrete gallery that slots into the ruins of a brick house is among the three exhibition spaces that make up the Zhang Yan Cultural Museum in China. More
US firm Trahan Architects has renovated the Coca-Cola Stage at the Alliance Theater in Atlanta, Georgia, using steam-bent timber to form an undulating auditorium. More
Australian studio Contreras Earl Architecture has revealed its design for the Living Coral Biobank, which will have a sculptural concrete facade informed by coral. More
Italian architect Carlo Ratti has unveiled MEET, a centre for digital culture in Milan designed to maximise chance encounters between visitors. More
Shanghai studio Roarc Renew has slotted two sweeping brick corridors between a pair of disused granaries in Jiaxing, China, to create the TaoCang Art Centre. More
Folding glass doors break up the dark concrete walls of this outpost for international art gallery Hauser & Wirth in New York City, designed by Selldorf Architects. More