New Norton Museum of Art Building

New Norton Museum of Art Building

Design: Foster + Partners, Architects. Expansion increases exhibition space, adds new Indoor and outdoor spaces, and a “Museum in a Garden”: transformational expansion project with ceremonial groundbreaking on February 6.

Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in California

Design: Diller Scofidio + Renfro , architects. BAM/PFA’s new building will open on January 31. The inaugural exhibition, Architecture of Life, includes over 200 works from the past 2,000 years. This is a combined art museum and repertory movie theater & archive, associated with the University of California, Berkeley.

St Albans Museum and Gallery, Hertfordshire

St Albans City Museum and Gallery

Design: John McAslan + Partners, Architects

Planning permission and listed building consent gained for conversion of the former Town Hall and Courtroom into the new St Albans City Museum and Art Gallery.

Villacidro Civic Centre in Sardinia: Building

Villacidro Civic Centre

Design: 3TI PROGETTI. The design of the new Civic Centre in Villacidro is located in a site that is an important urban reference point for the city and its inhabitants, due to its history and its morphological and natural features.

Competition for Contemporary Art Museum in Beirut

Competition for Contemporary Art Museum in Beirut

The international design competition for Lebanese origin architects with a Jury headed by Lord Peter Palumbo, Chair of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. APEAL seeks submissions for a design competition for a new modern and contemporary art museum in the heart of Beirut.

New National Gallery of Hungary Design Competition

New National Gallery

Design: SANAA, architects. Based on submitted competitive projects and negotiations with architecture studios, the New National Gallery will be built in the Vársoliget to the design by internationally renowned Japanese SANAA architects studio.

Piano’s Whitney Neighborhood, New York City

520 West 28 Street New York City building

“If, in all the different action movies, there was an architect superhero – first of all, he would do the things that Renzo Piano does. Second of all, his name would inevitably be Renzo Piano” remarked Bill de Blasio, New York City Mayor at the opening of the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Pompidou Centre in Malaga

Pompidou Centre in Malaga

Design: Javier Perez de la Fuente and Juan Antonio Marin Malavé: since this spring, Malaga has hosted the first “Provisional Pompidou Center” in the world in which you will see a hundred works on loan and several temporary exhibitions from the Pompidou Center in Paris.

V-A-C Contemporary Arts & Culture Centre

V-A-C Contemporary Arts and Culture Centre

Renzo Piano Building Workshop to redesign 2 hectares of the city, converting a historic power station, situated on the banks of the Moskva river, into a new venue for contemporary arts and culture.

The Europe–Far East Gallery in Krakow

The Europe-Far East Gallery

Design: Ingarden & Ewy Architects. The year 2015 marks twenty-eight years since the publication of Tygodnik Powszechny magazine’s interview in which Andrzej Wajda announced his intention to create a Museum of Japanese Art and Technology in Kraków.

Whitworth Art Gallery Reopening, Manchester

The Whitworth

Design: MUMA. Extension to the 19th century Whitworth Gallery,part of The University of Manchester – carefully crafted spaces emerge seamlessly from the existing as an integral yet individualistic part of the whole assembly

Museum of Modern Art Berlin Design Contest

Neue National Galerie Berlin

This design contest seeks ideas for a new 14,700m² standalone structure within the German capital’s Kulturforum district. Planned to complete in 2021, the £80m gallery will be located adjacent to Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie and Hans Scharoun’s Berliner Philharmonie.