Christ & Gantenbein unwraps Lindt Home of Chocolate on Lake Zurich
Architecture studio Christ & Gantenbein has completed a museum for chocolate brand Lindt alongside its headquarters in the Swiss town of Kilchberg on Lake Zurich. More
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Dorte Mandrup's Exilmuseum Berlin will facilitate "understanding of exile"
Dorte Mandrup has revealed visuals of a museum in Berlin that will create a backdrop to the ruins of Anhalter Bahnhof station and tell stories of the people who fled the Nazi regime. More
Barozzi Veiga designs Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne with ridged brick facade
Slender grey brick walls protrude from the front of fine arts museum Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, which Barcelona studio Barozzi Veiga created in the Lausanne city centre. More
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro wraps US Olympic and Paralympic Museum in diamond scales
Architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro has arranged the galleries of the US Olympic and Paralympic Museum in Colorado, which opens this week, around a spiralling ramp to make it one of the most accessible museums in the world. More
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Folded facades invite visitors into iADC Design Museum in Shenzhen
Hong Kong studio Rocco Design Architects has created the folded facades of the iADC Design Museum in Shapu to be a visual representation of Shenzhen's "design spirit". More
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Isometric creates toolkit for safely reopening museums following the pandemic
Brooklyn design firm Isometric Studio has devised a set of guidelines to help museums reopen safely following coronavirus, including adding signage to encourage social distancing and using masks as entry tickets. More
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MAD tops Shenzhen cultural park with "monumental stones"
Architecture studio MAD has unveiled its design for the largely subterranean Shenzhen Bay Culture Park museum complex, which will be topped by two pavilions designed to look like groups of large stones. More
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Copper panels adorn Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
Texas architecture firm Omniplan has topped the Holocaust museum in Dallas with a copper crown to represent "the strength of those who have stood up to injustice". More
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BART and Ronin design virtual exhibition New Horizons to launch Vredestein car tyres
Dezeen promotion: Dutch design agencies BART and Ronin have created a digital exhibition for tyre company Vredestein to launch its winter tyre and bring the new visual identity "refined by design" to life. More
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Cluster of hull-like roofs form The National Maritime Museum of China
Australian practice Cox Architecture designed The National Maritime Museum of China in Tianjin as four metal-clad wings that fan out to overlook Bohai Bay. More
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Tuñón Arquitectos adds white concrete gallery to Museum of Contemporary Art Helga de Alvear
Spanish practice Tuñón Arquitectos has added a white concrete extension to the Museum of Contemporary Art Helga de Alvear in Cáceres, Spain. More
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Collection project by the Museum of the Home will document domestic life under lockdown
London's Museum of the Home has launched a UK-wide project that calls for members of the public to submit photos and personal accounts of their living experience during the coronavirus pandemic. More
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Spaceworkers interprets Romanesque architecture in concrete for Romanesque architecture interpretation centre
Architecture office Spaceworkers has designed the concrete Centro de Interpretação do Românico museum in Portuguese village Lousada to explain the history of Romanesque architecture in the north of the country. More
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Snøhetta, Studio Gang and Henning Larsen compete to design Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library
Architecture firms Snøhetta, Studio Gang and Henning Larsen have been shortlisted to design a presidential library for Theodore Roosevelt in Medora, North Dakota. More
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Museum de Lakenhal given redesign and concertina-style pale brick extension
Museum de Lakenhal, a 375-year-old building in the Dutch town of Leiden, has been given a contemporary extension and redesign by Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven and Julian Harrap Architects. More
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New York's Poster House museum by LTL Architects contrasts "the rustic and the refined"
New York studio LTL Architects has designed minimal grey interiors that contrast white neoclassical pillars for the USA's first major museum dedicated to the history of posters. More
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"Rather than attempt to reconcile museums' contradictions, we should start again"
Museums should use the disruption caused by coronavirus to fundamentally rethink how they operate and what their purpose is, says Owen Hopkins. More
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MuseumLab opens in ruins of lightning-struck Pittsburgh library
US firm KoningEizenberg Architecture left worn-looking ornate walls, brickwork and columns inside this museum for children in Pittsburgh, which occupies a historic library that was struck by lightning. More
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BIG creates spiral museum for Audemars Piguet in the Swiss mountains
Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet is a spiral-shaped building rising up out of the landscape of Vallée de Joux in Switzerland designed by BIG for the watchmaker to house its collection of timepieces. More
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MVRDV's art depot for Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen nears completion
New photographs reveal that the MVRDV-designed Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen is nearing completion in Rotterdam. More
