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Design: Bente Lange Arkitekter
The A.P. Møller Foundation has made a generous donation to securing the future of the Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art by adding new building facilities.
In 2014 it’s exactly a century after the building was moved to its current location at Østerport in Copenhagen and in November, the new part of one of Europe’s oldest artists’ houses will be completed and open to the public.
Design: Keith Williams Architects. The Luan Gallery in Athlone, Co Westmeath has won a coveted Civic Trust Award in the 2014 awards programme. The building sits on a spectacular site overlooking the River Shannon.
New York-based architectural design firm SO – IL announces the groundbreaking on March 1, 2014 for the new Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California, Davis, California, USA. Designed in a design-build partnership with Bohlin Cywinski Jackson and Whiting-Turner.
Design: NL Architects. ArtA will be an exciting mixture of public functions: a ‘sandwich’ of cinema, square, museum and park: Art House, Art Square, Art Show, Art Park. By pushing this programmatic sandwich down on one side the roof becomes accessible. At the same time the building opens up to the river.
The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) (French: Musée des beaux-arts de l’Ontario) is an art museum in Toronto’s Downtown Grange Park district, on Dundas Street West between McCaul Street and Beverley Street.
Design: Shigeru Ban Architects
The Aspen Art Museum opened In 1979 at the renovated Holy Cross Power Plant on the banks of the Roaring Fork River. For 33 years that facility has served the mission of the organization well, fostering a program of art, dialogue, and creativity that has grown into a major cultural institution. The new building by this celebrated Japanese architect is now structurally complete.
Architects Shortlist. The Vancouver Art Gallery has short-listed five architectural firms as finalists for the design of its new home in downtown Vancouver. Selected from a pool of 75 firms representing 16 countries, the finalists include Diller Scofidio + Renfro (New York), Herzog & de Meuron (Basel), KPMB Architects (Toronto), SANAA (Tokyo), and Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (New York).
The building designed by Frank Gehry brings together the full range of the architect’s methods, aesthetic codes and modes of expression, while representing a new stage in his work.
Design: Glavovic Studio Inc and AECOM. Conceived as infrastructure and landscape, the building is the first museum to achieve LEED Gold Certification ranking in Florida and is one of only three children’s museums to be LEED Gold certified in the United States. The building recently won the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Southeast Florida/Caribbean 2013 Vision Awards Project of the Year.
Cy Twombly Gallery at Kimbell Art Museum, Texas, USA. Design: Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW). Commissioned by Dominique de Menil and opened in 1995, the Cy Twombly Gallery is architect Renzo Piano’s second U.S. commission
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Boston, MA, USA, design: Renzo Piano Building Workshop. Progress on Harvard Art Museum Project. Some photos of construction on this building by RPBW
New Gagosian Gallery in Mayfair, London Design: TateHindle. Westminster City Council has granted planning consent for the recladding and remodelling of 20 Grosvenor Hill. The building is owned by Grosvenor Britain & Ireland (Grosvenor), which was assisted with its planning application by architects TateHindle.
Wessex Gallery of Archaeology
New Salisbury Building, Wiltshire, England
The new gallery will be of international importance, telling the story of Salisbury and the surrounding area from prehistoric times to the Norman Conquest.
Tel Aviv’s Ermanno Tedeschi Gallery (3 Lilienblum Street, Neve Tzedek) will open its newest show, “Never Say the Eye Is Rigid: Architectural Drawings of Daniel Libeskind.”
The new extension to Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, designed by Berman Guedes Stretton, has officially opened this month under its new name, The Wilson Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum.
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki wins World Building of the Year at World Architecture Festival 2013: A striking, beautiful building that is dominated by its oversailing roof shaped like fingers reaching out into the sky.
A major exhibition of more than 250 objects and works of art inspired by, or produced in, East Anglia is to mark the unveiling of the refurbished galleries of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich.