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The first phase of the newly expanded Queens Museum designed by Grimshaw is now complete, signaling a new era for the historic New York City building and the surrounding community. Located in Flushing Meadows, Corona Park, Queens, the Museum has now doubled in size to 105,000 sqft.
Design: MVRDV. The city of Rotterdam, De Verre Bergen Foundation and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and MVRDV presented the design for the new Collection Building. The building with a surface of 15.000 sqm is an open art depot featuring exhibition halls, a sculpture roof garden and a restaurant. The public can see what’s going on behind the scenes in a museum and private art collectors will be able to store their own collection in ideal Museum conditions.
Design: Olson Kundig Architects. The Bezos Center for Innovation is now open at Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI). Generously supported by Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos, the Bezos Center for Innovation is a groundbreaking exhibition dedicated to the theme of innovation, featuring multimedia, interactive and hands-on experiences as well as artifacts, images and oral histories that explore Seattle’s creative history and ignite the innovator within.
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: Purcell Architects
Oxford University Museum of Natural History Reopens to the Public
Beard and Purcell’s £2 million roof restoration is completed
Major works to repair leaks in the glass roof and refresh the interiors of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History have been successfully concluded by regional construction company Beard and architects Purcell.
Barna Architects’ first prize-winning proposal of The National Archaeological Museum of Mongolia international architecture competition. The National Archaeological Museum of Mongolia is a multifunctional complex, containing research, educational, and exhibition space, and offices as well, all in all, making it the building floor area 50,000 sqm.
Design: Jarmund/Vigsnæs Architects. For trekkers to Norway’s glacial north, a warm and airtight welcome at the new “Rabothytta” cabin to welcome adventurers to the magnificent Okstind glacier. Commissioned by the Norwegian Trekking Association the remote ‘Rabothytta’ cabin has been built to precise specifications to withstand the harsh extremes of weather in the region. Designed to echo the natural forms of its landscape, it is part of a network of self-contained cabins and can accommodate groups of up to thirty people on a self-catering basis.
Concorde and aerospace centre project news, Bristol, England: Focus Consultants and architects, Purcell have been appointed to draw up designs for a multi-million pound heritage museum and learning centre dedicated to aerospace
Design: Mather & Co. The new International Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland has opened. The museum has three floors of permanent exhibition galleries. Mather & Co developed the narrative and themes and 3D designs of all the museum spaces. The building is the largest centre dedicated to telling the story of the Olympic Movement.
Design: Rudy Ricciotti. The Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations is the flagship project of Marseille’s on-going architectural and cultural renaissance. Located on Marseille’s seafront the inner structure has been covered with a delicate ornamental skin of filigreed concrete.
Design: Steven Holl Architects with Li Hu. The 30,000 sqft Sifang Art Museum in Nanjing is sited at the gateway to the Chinese International Practical Exhibition of Architecture, which brings together the work of 24 designers
Design: MBM Arquitectes
Intriguing Catalan architecture – a confident, expressive building by David Mackay / MBM. The ‘Design Hub’ is located on a sloping site beside Jean Nouvelle’s Agbar tower, and very close to the elevated roundabout of a busy motorway. The site is part of a future park which meant that only a small building footprint would be allowed at ground level with the rest of the building underground.
e-architect presents Joseph Mizzi, President of Sciame, known as “the king of New York City Construction Companies.” In Part 4: Mizzi continues the exclusive e-architect video series detailing Renzo Piano’s first New York City project The Morgan Museum and Library
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
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.
Alfonso Architects has been awarded the building project for the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, MAACM, to be built in St. Petersburg, FL, for collector Rudy Ciccarello and the Two Red Roses Foundation (TRRF).
Alberto Alfonso, AIA, will be the lead architect on the 90,000-sqft museum, which is scheduled to open in early 2016.
BIG + A+Architecture + Egis + Base + L’Echo + Celsius Environnement + CCVH have been announced winner of the international design competition for the new Cité du Corps Humain (Museum of the Human Body) in Montpellier, France.