a-fact    Montenegro   A team led by the firm a-fact (Andrea Rossi, Giovanni Sanna, Pierluigi Turco) has won the international competition to build a Museum of Contemporary Art, a Natural History Museum, and a Park of Arts & Culture in Podgorica, the capital of Montene

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   The old electrical station of Malmö, in the south of Sweden, has been transformed into an art museum with an informal and experimental character that would complement the main museum in Stockholm. The greatest challenge posed by the project, (in addi

Barozzi Veiga Hermansson Hiller Lundberg    Sweden   The Spain-based practice of Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga – in collaboration with the Swedish architects Hermansson Hiller Lundberg and the landscape architect Peter Korn – has won the competition to revamp the Göteborgs Konstmuseum. A half-bu

Lina Ghotmeh   Estonia   In the country’s cultural capital, an ethnograhic center founded in 1909 moves into a long container that aspires to be a symbol of national prosperity in the wake of regained independence. The project questioned the competition rules and called for

Herzog & de Meuron   Qatar   Three intersecting spheres form and carve the building, breaking it up into two parts: one is like a full moon and other like a crescent moon wrapped around it. That is the art museum that Herzog & de Meuron designed for the art and culture insti

Junya Ishigami + associates   China   This kilometer-long museum in Rizhao, a city in China’s Shandong province, rises on an artificial lake with openings to let water in, flooding the floor. The 20,000-square-meter construction presents a dynamic of varying widths and heights. The obje

KWK Promes   Czech Republic   In Ostrava, capital of the Czech region of Moravia-Silesia, the Polish firm founded by Robert Konieczny, KWK Promes, was entrusted to transform a slaughterhouse that was in a state of ruin into an art gallery. In the superposition of layers showing t

Luis Martínez Santa-María Teresa Martínez López   Spain   Several small pieces, articulated between one another, form a unique volume that is camouflaged among the neighboring buildings thanks to its material quality and to its proportionality. The sloping tile roofs help continue this volumetric sequence..

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   A longitudinal volume with clear and precise geometry opens up to create a covered plaza that functions as welcome space. The natural landscape is framed by a large descending stairway that spans the marked topographical difference...

DJO Arquitectos Estudio Arquitectura HAGO   Spain   The large lower surface of the site remains below ground and, therefore, hidden from the street. Towards the city, a horizontal platform is transformed into the main lookout, from which emerge three pieces whose scale adapts to the city, small and co

Soriano y Asociados Arquitectos Pedro Urzáiz Pedro Pitarch Ruiz Barbarin Arquitectos   Spain   A slightly sloping footbridge connects the two buildings located at either side of the river. The ramp meets the main volume, constructed in compressed earth, at an opening that emphasizes the project’s aim of creating a new gate to the city...

ERRE arquitectura   Spain   The Hortensia Herrero Art Center is located in the old Valeriola Palace, a central and emblematic 17th century building that has served multiple uses over the years and undergone several interventions, falling finally into disuse over the past decade

KPMB Architects   Canada   The Harrison McCain Pavilion is part of a general expansion of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, which was founded in 1969 at the behest of its patron, Lord Beaverbrook, who funded the original building and donated his art collection to the community. Mad

Zaha Hadid Architects   China   This cultural complex emerges like an island on ZhongXin Lake, in the Jinwan district of Zhuhai, China. With a width of 170 meters from east to west and a length of 270 from north to south, it is home to three institutions: a performing arts hub with

Herzog & de Meuron   South Korea   The Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron has won the competition for the building that will safeguard the archives of three major cultural institutions based in the South Korean capital: the Seoul Museum of Art, the Seoul Museum of Craft Art, and the Se

Alberto Campo Baeza Raphaël Gabrion   France   Two volumes wrapped under the same skin of black concrete organize the project. On top of the first one of the them, a large horizontal plinth housing workshops and services, emerges a sort of cubic volume that protects the museum collections...

Alberto Campo Baeza Pablo Millán   Spain   A slender roof shaped as a tall canopy is designed to protect the vast excavated space from the weather. It is formed by a rectangle held by four pillars, where a series of light footbridges mark the walking paths for visitors throughout the archaeol

Francisco Mangado   Spain   The Government of Extremadura has announced that a scheme titled ‘Music and the Earth,’ submitted by the architecture firm Mangado y Asociados, has won the ideas competition for the construction, in the historical quarter of Cáceres, of a museum to h

MAD Architects   Netherlands   The Beijing-based firm led by Ma Yansong, MAD Architects, has been contracted to transform the San Francisco warehouse in the port of Rotterdam into a museum on global migration. On the south bank of the River Maas, the 16,000-square-meter building w

ARB Architects   Vietnam   Hanoi ARB Architects, directed by Nguyen Ha, was commissioned by the artist Xuan Hinh to build a museum devoted to Dao Mau, the worship of mother goddesses which was established in Vietnam in the 16th century, and declared a UNESCO-listed religion in

Heneghan Peng Architects   Palestine   A faceted building in the middle of a landscape of terraces has the mission of preserving the memory of a people currently displaced and dispersed, but strongly united in identity.

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Germany   Post-war german architecture now enjoys recognition and protection today, which, with the exception of some unique works, it lacked for years, associated with the utilitarianism and pragmatism that prevailed in the reconstruction of the war-devastate

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   The artist’s home is a museum category in itself. It represents the real experience of the rooms, objects, furniture, and spaces where, in another time, creators not only resided but also produced their works and shared their personal and family life

Roy Nachum (1979, Jerusalem) works across disciplines and is known especially for paintings that go from surrealism to hyperrealism. Nachum rose to fame with the cover design for Rihanna’s Anti album of 2016, a work that included a fragment in Braill

Architecture has had so many ties to the hard power of politics and religion that we can easily forget how it has also always, from the very beginning, served the soft power of science. Weren’t the Babylon ziggurats towers from which to observe the s

The German National Theater, the residences of the likes of Goethe, Schiller, Nietzsche, or Liszt, the Bauhaus Museum... Classical Weimar boasts a wealth of places to visit that tell of the city’s rich history, for not in vain is it on the UNESCO Wor

The Guardian   Jon Henley   For Unesco (United National Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) Francis Kéré has designed an immersive virtual museum of cultural objects stolen from museums, collections, and archaeological sites worldwide. The project aims to raise

Like a jewelry box, a treasure chest, or a Wunderkammer, the Royal Collections Gallery opened its doors in the city of Madrid last 28 June to showcase its extraordinary architecture, in addition to its no less extraordinary collection of objects whic

Ptolemy, the Greek pharaoh of Egypt, ordered the building of the Mouseion of Alexandria in the year 280 BC, and in doing this, what he was inventing was not so much a place where erudites could come to study under the sponsorship of the State, but ra

The names of the finalists in the international competition to revitalize the Dallas Museum of Art have been unveiled. The six teams are: Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos (Madrid); David Chipperfield Architects (London); Diller Scofidio + Renfro (New York)

Palace matters take time. That is why two decades – practically the same as Philip II with his Escorial – have been necessary to complete the great center called to collect the treasures of the Spanish crown. The project was already considered during

Manuel Blanco   The new museum, one of the largest cultural complexes built in decades, showcases its collections along the two main levels, each devoted to one of the reigning dynasties. 

Emilio Tuñón   A linear volume is attached to the slope that historically marked the border of the city, establishing with its rigorous granite facade a formal and material dialogue with the Royal Palace. 

Pedro Moleón   The physical and symbolic magnitude of the work by Mansilla+Tuñón brings to life a long-held yearning of showing an art collection treasured for centuries by the kings of Spain. 

The firm 6a architects has publicized the first images of its ‘reimagining’ of Tate Liverpool, which was founded in 1988. The intervention on the 180-year-old building includes double-height exhibition galleries and an events venue on the ground flo

The Art Newspaper    The Centre Georges Pompidou will be opening a museum in Seoul in 2025, expanding its network of outposts that currently includes branches in Metz, Shanghai, and Málaga. The Paris-based institution has signed an agreement with the Hanwha Culture Found

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Luis Fernández-Galiano   Published at the same time, the books that the art historian Estrella de Diego and the writer Antonio Muñoz Molina have devoted to the Prado may seem like parallel endeavors, but could not be more different. Both arose from invitations to give semina

With the intention of bringing together under one same roof the entire collection of the extinct Museum of Artistic Reproductions, the National Sculpture Museum made a call for competition that would result in a project to fit out the Renaissance pal

The Guardian   Benita Kolovos   The redevelopment will feature 13,000 sq metres of exhibition space, a rooftop terrace and restaurant. The final design of the National Gallery of Victoria’s contemporary arts space has been unveiled, with the state’s creative industries minister, Da

If every epoch has its own idea of history and thus builds its own museums, ours already has one which exemplarily captures the aspirations of the 20th century: the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which Renzo Piano has just completed in Hollywood

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The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   Delicate, beguiling and studded with trees, the museum has landed in a Budapest park – but behind it is a controversial €1bn vision by rightwing populist leader Viktor Orbán. A great big crumpet appears to have landed in the middle of Budapest’s City

Veritable classics of contemporary architecture, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron have been exceedingly successful in combining an inalienably artistic idea of architecture with an efficient response to the changing scenarios of globalization, and

The Economist   The jagged towers and palm-fringed walkways of the proposed Guggenheim Abu Dhabi (GAD) take their inspiration from the wooden sailing dhows that ply the waters of the Gulf and the funnel-shaped wind towers, known as barjeel, built to bring natural ve

With the same expansionist strategy that led it to open branches in Málaga, Brussels, and Shanghai, the Centre Pompidou will soon be making a landing in America with the help of Rotterdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture, which is refurbish

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