Currency Museum Luanda Building
Design: COSTΛLOPES Architects. The Currency Museum can be seen as one of the many steps towards establishing this architectural studio as one of Angola’s leading architecture offices.
Museum building designs
Museum buildings designs and architects
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Art Gallery Hub in South Kensington
Architects: BuckleyGrayYeoman. The listed terrace at 1-5 Cromwell Place, which include the home and studio of the celebrated British painter, Sir John Lavery, will see the creation an innovative new gallery cluster providing offices, exhibition spaces, art storage and viewing rooms.
Karlovac freshwater aquarium & museum of rivers
Design: 3LHD, Architects. Two A+Awards for this building that is partially dug into the ground and covered with earthen embankments from its outer edges, inspired by the city’s historic center “Karlovac star”.
Global Contemporary Art Museum Massachusetts
Design: Gluckman Tang Architects. This 165,000-sqft exhibition and art storage facility for contemporary art adapts the economical and flexible building system of industrial sheds and the scale, massing, and form of early industrial mill buildings.
Mount Pleasant Sorting Office Development
Design contest launched for an alternative masterplan with proposals sought from across the architecture profession. The Royal Mail put Mount Pleasant up for sale, along with a consented scheme by four leading architects.
Petersen Automotive Museum Los Angeles
Design: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF). An American Architecture Awards Winner in 2017: this building reopened following a striking new redesign, which features eye-catching steel ribbons that curve around the entire exterior.
Whitney Museum of American Art New Building
Design: Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Architects. American Architecture Awards winner: at 200,000 sqft, the new building is nearly double the size of its former home on the Upper East Side, which could not fully show its 22,000-strong art collection.
Lascaux IV in Montignac Building
Design: Snøhetta and Casson Mann
The new International Centre for Cave Art in Montignac, France welcomes visitors to an immersive educational experience of the prehistoric Lascaux cave paintings.
Philadelphia Museum of Art Core Project
The Core Project design by Frank Gehry architect creates significant new public space within footprint of landmark building plus 23,000 sqft of new gallery space for display of the collection.
Geffrye Museum ‘Unlocking the Geffrye’, London
Geffrye Museum funding news – proposals by Wright & Wright Architects receives £12.3million National Lottery grant. The architects “have a strong record of award-winning work with heritage buildings, sensitive sites and complex problems.”
Jingdezhen Historical Museum of Imperial Kiln in Jiangxi
Architects: Studio Zhu-Pei
Located in the historic center of Jingdezhen city, Jingdezhen Historical Museum of the Imperial Kiln is adjacent to the Ming and Qing imperial kiln ruins and surrounded by many ancient kilns varied in size.
Romsdal Museum, Norway
Design: Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter. This new building in Molde has been selected as a finalist for the 5th Annual Architizer A+Award, and also nominated the “Wooden Building of the Year 2016” in Norway.
Centro Botin in Santander Art Centre: Renzo Piano
Centro Botín by architects Renzo Piano – a permanent home for the art, cultural and educational programmes of Fundación Botín, Spain’s most important private cultural foundation, will open in Santander on Friday 23 June,.
Finnskogscentrum Museum Torsby
Architects: Bornstein Lyckefors arkitekter. Conceived as a wooden palisade this new layer defines an envelope within which the museum can continue to expand, converting class rooms into new exhibition spaces as additional funds are raised.
Al Shaheed Park in Kuwait Landscape
Design: Ricardo Camacho + STROOP, architects – new photos. The reconversion of a formal garden by Kuwait Amiri Diwan was built in the early 1960’s, to celebrate the city’s modernization, and named as “Shaheed Garden” after Saddam’s Invasion in memory of the war martyrs.
Museum of Contemporary Art and Planning Exhibition in Shenzhen
Design: Coop Himmelblau, HSArchitects + GD-Lighting
Mocape’s surface materials of glass, perforated plate, and stone extend and twist along the steel structure, creating a complicated architecture full of vitality.
The Shenandoah Valley Discovery Museum Winchester
Design by Reader & Swartz Architects – this was a plain, utilitarian, three story brick building. It was originally constructed for the Schewels Furniture Company, in the historic downtown, in the late 1940’s.