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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.
Canadian Canoe Museum in Ontario, Trent-Severn Canal Building: buildings near Peterborough Lift Lock, Canada design by Heneghan Peng Architects
Design: Matteo Cainer Architects. The Museum of Contemporary Arts and Planning Exhibition is a symbolic cultural institution that confirms the importance of the Shenzhen region, as well as providing an intimate and meaningful public building for the Futian Center District.
UK architects studio Mossessian Architecture has won an architectural competition to design Saudi Arabia’s Makkah Museum, a building dedicated to the Islamic faith.
Design: Diller Scofidio + Renfro , architects. BAM/PFA’s new building will open on January 31. The inaugural exhibition, Architecture of Life, includes over 200 works from the past 2,000 years. This is a combined art museum and repertory movie theater & archive, associated with the University of California, Berkeley.
Museum of London West Smithfield International Design Competition. Malcolm Reading Consultants appointed to manage its search for an architect to design MOL’s proposed new museum at West Smithfield