Rose Museum in Beijing building

Rose Museum

Design: NEXT architects

The Beijing Rose Museum is the main venue for the 2016 World Rose Convention, in which over thirty countries participate. In this 100 hectare rose park over 2.000 species of roses will be exhibited.

ARoS, Aarhus Kunstmuseum: Museum of Art

ARoS, Aarhus Kunstmuseum

The ARoS Aarhus Art Museum is delighted to announce the first ARoS Triennial, a new international contemporary art exhibition that will be presented every three years in Aarhus, Denmark.

Lucas Museum of Narrative Art San Francisco

Lucas Museum of Narrative Art building in Chicago

George Lucas abandons plans to build his Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Chicago. It may move to Treasure Island in San Francisco, California. SF city and museum representatives are in early discussions about a site on Treasure Island. The Chicago design was by Ma Yansong of Chinese architecture studio MAD Architects.

Dolphinarium in Klaipeda, Lithuania Museum

Dolphinarium

Design: Uostamiescio projektas. On the top of the building the roof cafe with a terrace was designed offering a view to the Curonian lagoon and the Baltic sea. Over the dolphin living space the sunroof was installed, dropping the maximum amount of light into the pool area.

Pierre Lassonde Pavilion in Quebec: OMA

Pierre Lassonde Pavilion in Quebec: OMA

The Pierre Lassonde Pavilion Québec building design by OMA, Architects with Provencher_Roy Architectes gradually decreases in height as it retreats from the urban turbulence, creating a cascade effect that enables the museum to reach out toward the park at the back while inviting the city in on the front.

Timmelsjoch Experience Pass Museum, Austria

Timmelsjoch Experience Pass Museum

Design: Werner Tscholl

This bold concrete structure juts out like an erratic boulder, 2474 m above sea level. The “Ice Cave” inside the museum pays tribute to the pioneers of the High Alpine Road.

Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion in Montréal building

Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion of Quebec and Canadian Art in Montreal

Design: Provencher_Roy, architects. Remarkable conversion of former Erskine and American Church into a 444-seat concert hall. The rear annex has been completely reconstructed in contemporary style to form the new art pavilion.

Museum of Contemporary Art in Latvia: LMoCAF

Museum of Contemporary Art Winners

The Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation has announced that they have selected Adjaye Associates – working with the Latvian team AB3D – as the winner of the invited international competition to design a new contemporary art museum for the centre of Riga.

West Smithfield Design Competition Proposals

West Smithfield Design Competition Proposals

Images of designs by six architecture teams shortlisted for the new Museum of London in West Smithfield. The international design competition architectural concepts now on display.

Museum of Nordic Disciplines in Planica

Museum of Nordic Disciplines

Design: Trost & Associates. As a part of a major expansion in Tamar Valley, the Planica Nordic Center includes a new central building located near the end of cross-country skiing tracks.

Library and Exhibition Centre Whakatane

Library and Exhibition Centre

Design: Irving Smith Architects. Following recent development of new commercial outlets away from Whakatane’s town centre, Whakatane Library & Exhibition Centre relocates public facilities back into the centre to revitalize an area of big box retail and carparking left devoid of urban life.

Delos Museum in Greece building design

Delos Museum

Design: Jean Pierre HEIM and Carolyn HEIM architects

The concept for this design is to access and exit the Museum of Delos with three long concrete slabs bridging over a reservoir collecting rain-water during the winter season and drainage in the ground.