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Design: OMA, Architects with Provencher Roy + Associés architectes. The musée national des beaux-arts du québec (MNBAQ) will open its new building, named the ‘Pierre Lassonde Pavilion’, on June 24, 2016.
The museum used to be located on Grosvenor Street to the south of the city centre and had close ties with UMIST, having mostly grown out of the Department of History of Science & Technology.
Design: Studio Libeskind unveils the design for The Kurdistan Museum at the Bloomberg Businessweek Design conference in San Francisco, California, USA.
Located in one of the oldest parts of Copenhagen, the Danish Jewish Museum is housed in a former 17th-century boathouse and library built by King Christian IV. Studio Libeskind designed the new interior space, while preserving the original building.
Design: OMA / Hassell, Architects: the new Western Australian Museum building in Perth reaches a significant milestone, with a design team led by international architects OMA led by Rem Koolhaas now in negotiations to oversee the project.
Design: THEEAE LTD (The Evolved Architectural Eclectic Limited), architects. “The Creation of Architectural Garden through a Form of Broken Ice: The environment present in the city is the cityscape that creates the characteristic of the town. It is a form of elevation that our eye can capture.”
The Museum of London announce the six architectural teams shortlisted to design its new museum in West Smithfield in the international design competition organised by Malcolm Reading Consultants (MRC).
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. DDP was the first public project in Korea to utilize the 3-Dimensional Building Information Modelling (BIM) and other digital tools in construction.
Design: Charles Moore Architect; renovation design: Billie Tsien and Tod Williams – proposals for Hood Museum at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, have caused a backlash from fans of the Postmodern architect and author, according to The New York Times.
Metropolitan Museum of Art on Madison Avenue. Occupying the old “Whitney” in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The former museum closed in 2014 to relocate to a new building designed by Renzo Piano in Lower Manhattan that opened in May 1, 2015.
A rare survivor of London’s historic docks will be celebrated by a major new gallery opening at the Museum of London Docklands on 25 March; the first part of a major development to transform the Museum of London Dockland’s galleries.
Design: Christ & Gantenbein
The Kunstmuseum Basel’s treasures include some of the finest art of the Renaissance in the Upper Rhine Valley such as the world’s largest collection of works by the Holbein family as well as masterpieces by Konrad Witz, Martin Schongauer, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Matthias Grünewald, and others
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.
The list of architect offices participating in the international design competition announced for the Museum of Ethnography is now finalised: fifteen architects offices.
SFMOMA’s 225,000-square-foot Snøhetta-designed expansion represents a transformation of the museum as a whole.
The new expansion and major renovation of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, USA, designed by Susan T. Rodriguez / Ennead Architects has launched a new era for the Museum.
Design: Arkkitehdit Davidsson Tarkela. Helsinki City Museum to open their new flagship museum on 13 May 2016 in the historic Tori Quarters. The opening programme of the new Helsinki City Museum has been designed to bring history to life and create the feeling for visitors of walking back through time.