St Albans Museum and Gallery, Hertfordshire
Design: John McAslan + Partners, Architects
Planning permission and listed building consent gained for conversion of the former Town Hall and Courtroom into the new St Albans City Museum and Art Gallery.
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Safavieh History Museum, Ardabil Building
Design: Babak Ahangar Azizi, Architect. Traditionally, the guiding, formative, motif of Iranian architecture has been its cosmic symbolism by which man is brought into communication and participation with the powers of heaven.
Bötzow Brewery Building Berlin: Chipperfield
Design: David Chipperfield Architects. Proposal to refurbish a 19th-century brewery in Berlin, adding new buildings to house a gallery, restaurants and a medical innovation centre.
Zuckerman Museum of Art Atlanta building
Design: Stanley Beaman & Sears. In just the last year, an unlikely arts scene has emerged more than twenty-file miles north-west of downtown Atlanta.
Rock Museum Roskilde, ROCKmagneten
Design: MVRDV and COBE. The Danish Rock Museum in Roskilde is the first building of ROCKmagneten, a larger rock music district consisting of three new buildings and a refurbished factory
Cultual Center La Gota, Tabacoo Museum
Design: Losada García Arquitectos. Cultural Center La Gota is a hybrid building for exhibition spaces that aims to create a new focus of urban centrality in Navalmoral, showcasing the identity of the town.
Biomuseo Panama: Biodiversity Museum by Frank Gehry
Biomuseo Amador Causeway, Biodiversity Museum: Panama Bridge of Life building, architecture design by architect Frank Gehry. The site was at the end of the Causeway facing the Pacific Ocean
BPS22 Art Museum in Charleroi Building
Design: Archiscénographie Roland. By contrast, the second wing of the BPS22 was completely transformed into a huge “white box” covering a floor area of 800 sqm. It now meets museum standards and is best suited to museum type presentations.
German Hat Museum Lindenberg
Design: ATELIER BRÜCKNER. The Bavarian Museum Award, which comes with a prize money of 20,000 euros, will be presented to the German Hat Museum this year.The celebration will take place in 2015 in Lindenberg im Allgäu
Competition for Contemporary Art Museum in Beirut
The international design competition for Lebanese origin architects with a Jury headed by Lord Peter Palumbo, Chair of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. APEAL seeks submissions for a design competition for a new modern and contemporary art museum in the heart of Beirut.
New National Gallery of Hungary Design Competition
Design: SANAA, architects. Based on submitted competitive projects and negotiations with architecture studios, the New National Gallery will be built in the Vársoliget to the design by internationally renowned Japanese SANAA architects studio.
Modern Art Center in Vilnius by Studio Libeskind
Design: Studio Libeskind, Architects. Surrounded by a new public piazza located steps away from the historic medieval city, the 3,100 sqm museum stands as an expression of Vilnius past and present.
Jewish Museum Berlin Academy: Libeskind
Roughly a dozen years after Daniel Libeskind’s extension to the Jewish Museum Berlin opened to great acclaim in 2001, the museum is set to unveil its latest collaboration with the architect, the Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin.
Piano’s Whitney Neighborhood, New York City
“If, in all the different action movies, there was an architect superhero – first of all, he would do the things that Renzo Piano does. Second of all, his name would inevitably be Renzo Piano” remarked Bill de Blasio, New York City Mayor at the opening of the Whitney Museum of American Art.