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Design: Richard Olcott / Ennead Architects
One of the largest art museum campaigns in the US, the building expansion includes the addition of a 40,000 sqft wing along with 17,500 sqft of renovation to adjacent structures.
Architects: Snøhetta. Building extension based on idea of art hovering above a transparent base. The new space houses a children’s workshop at ground level with floor-to-ceiling windows, located under a cantilevered hall covered in a dynamic metal façade.
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. The Red Army Memorial Museum is situated in the rural Bing’an Warf, a shoal in the middle of the Chishui river, on the border between the regions of Guizhou and Sichuan, in South-West China.
Reception Pavilion for the National Assembly Quebec design by GLCRM and Provencher_Roy Architects, plus preservation of historic Parliament Building designed by Eugène-Étienne Taché
Design: Purcell, architects. News on this major transformation of the historic fabric of the Grade II* listed buildings and upgarde in the experience of visiting.
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.
Design: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, architects. New photos, taken by Duccio Malagamba, feature Shenzhen’s new cultural meeting point and a venue for architectural exhibitions by architect Wolf D. Prix.
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.
Architects: Melbourne Design Studios (MDS). This concept project creates a ‘connector’ between the existing Alvar Aalto Museo and the Cen-tral Museum of Finland in Ruusupuisto, inspired by Alvar Aalto’s architecture, paintings and design philosophy.
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.
Design: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, architects. Grand ceremony to celebrate completion of construction of MOCAPE in Shenzhen, China: “Museum space is like a three-dimensional Chinese Garden” said architect Wolf D. Prix.
Design: Architects of Invention. The LANDSCAPE BUILDING idea was conceived as a gentle exchange; it is a terrain in itself. The building uses every aspect of its construction for navigation and art exhibition. The roof slopes are pedestrian walkways and they form a sculpture park.
Design: Hans van Heeswijk Architects. Netherlands’ biggest collection of modern realist art, housed in the former town hall of Gorssel. This building has undergone a transformation with new wings for galleries behind the existing building.