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Brick Awards winner, design by Caruso St John Architects, London. Conversion of a street of listed industrial buildings into a free public gallery for artist Damien Hirst. Winner of Stirling Prize 2016.
Architects: CL3
Dedicated to art businesses, restaurants and retail, the building aims to transform the urban environment by creating a new focus for art and entertainment alongside HK’s historic Pottinger Street.
Design: Matteo Cainer Architects. The design for the New National Art Gallery building in Singapore will forge an identity that celebrates the iconic architectural heritage and historical significance of two national monuments.
Design: MUMA, architects – the client’s competition brief expressed an aim to make the internationally important collection of fine art, textiles and wallpaper, accessible to a wider range of visitors, to make better use of the existing gallery spaces and to establish a relationship with the surrounding grounds and park.
Design: Ushida Findlay / Simpson Brown. The development considerably increase the amount of exhibition space, allowing a showcase of much more of the collections as well as hosting exhibitions of an international standard.
Design: Fentress Architects and Machado Silvetti, Architects. $150 m renewal and expansion of Gio Ponti’s only building in the US, one of the first high-rise art museums, to be completed in time to mark its 50th anniversary in 2021.
Architects: West-line studio. Danxia landform is a unique red rock landscape located in southern China. Chishui Danxia, in the north of Guizhou province, can be classified as ‘young Danxia’, which is one of the most impressive phases.
Design: Snøhetta. Located near to the fjord in the urban and exciting new neighborhood Bjørvika in Oslo, Shoot Gallery is a starter for the growing arts scene in the Barcode area.
Museo del Prado expansion design by Gluckman Tang Architects, the only US architectural practice out of eight finalists in an international competition featuring the world’s foremost architecture firms.
Architects Foster + Partners and Rubio Arquitectura have won the international competition to rejuvenate and restore the historic Hall of Realms as a new addition to the Museo del Prado campus in Madrid.
Foundation Myths at York Art Gallery – Art by former FAT architect Charles Holland. Previously he worked with artist Grayson Perry on architectural ceramics specialist, Darwen Terracotta and Faience on the House for Essex,
Design: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects. The ARoS Aarhus Art Museum’ (DK) ambitious €40 million expansion plan, Next Level, was suggested in 2015 and now the design of what will be the biggest art gallery project by American artist James Turrell has been revealed.
Associated architects SO – IL and Bohlin Cywinski Jackson announce the opening of their collaborative design effort at UC Davis. In keeping with the free-thinking, experimental legacy of the UC Davis School of Art, the light-filled, multi-use building is designed to further the educational mission of the museum.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao – designed by celebrated architect Frank Gehry – announce a special programme of events to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its opening
Architects: KWK Promes. The proposal assumes restoration of the building’s original form and elimination of, what is deemed to be, all unnecessary additions. The new exhibition space has been placed underground to the front of the existing Gallery.
Design: Studio Milou Singapore
This new visual arts institution will be home to Singapore’s National Collection, the largest public collection of visual arts from Singapore and Southeast Asia from the 19th century to the present day.
Design: David Chipperfield Architects with Taller Abierto de Arquitectura y Urbanismo. A structure that celebrates the industrial heritage of its site context in Mexico City, the Museo Jumex is home to the largest private collection of Latin American contemporary art in the world.