Museum building designs

Museum buildings designs and architects

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J.P. Morgan Library & Museum Access Design

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J.P. Morgan Library & Museum

I love Piano’s description of the J.P. Morgan Library as “this funny place in the middle of Manhattan.” Before my first April, 2013 visit to the Morgan, I was last at the Library in 1971.

Pingtan Art Museum: China Building

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Pingtan Art Museum, Fujian Development, Modern China Building, Chinese Architecture, Architect Pingtan Art Museum, China Contemporary Chinese Building Development design by MAD architects 15 Jul 2013 Design: MAD architects Location: Pingtan, China Pingtan County comprises 126 islands in the Taiwan Strait, under the administration of Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian province, People’s Republic of China. … Read more

Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Building

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Saint Louis Art Museum East Building

The new East Building of the Saint Louis Art Museum, designed by David Chipperfield Architects with technical assistance from HOK, opened to the public in St. Louis, Missouri, USA on Saturday 29 June 2013.

Saint Louis Art Museum East Building

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Saint Louis Art Museum East Building by David Chipperfield Architects

Recently awarded LEED Gold status by the U.S. Green Building Council, Chipperfield’s design for the more than 200,000-square-foot East Building presents a contemporary counterpart to the Museum’s neo-classical 1904 building.

Design Museum Sale, Zaha Hadid Architects

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The sale to Zaha Hadid Architects is the next step in the Design Museum’s journey to relocate to the former Commonwealth Institute building in Kensington High Street, west London, which is planned to open in late 2015.

Viking Exhibition Copenhagen, Denmark

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Viking Exhibition Copenhagen, National Museum of Denmark display design by ATELIER BRÜCKNER: Danish interior display photos – centrepiece is a shipwreck found in 1997 in Roskilde.

Fashion Museum Tokyo Building

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Fashion Museum Tokyo Building

The museum proposal by architects YBGSNA introduces a translucent tower which displays fashion as an interior event as well as an external one. We interpreted the programmatic request for Architectural projections as a call to blur the gap between open and closed spaces or between institutional and urban environments.

Museo Casa Enzo Ferrari Modena Museum

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Museo Casa Enzo Ferrari Modena Museum

In 2004 Future Systems won an international competition to design a new museum in Modena, Italy. Dedicated to motor racing legend and entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari, the museum comprises exhibition spaces within the early nineteenth century house where the motor racing giant was born.

Nam June Paik Museum, Seoul Building

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The Nam June Paik Museum of Video Art proposal is structured as a 25X25X12 m Black Box. All activities events and displays occur within the vast space of the box.

World’s Spectacular Museum Buildings News

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World’s Spectacular Museum Buildings, Art and Architecture Developments, Images, Architects, Designs

World’s Most Spectacular Museum Buildings

Art and Architecture Developments across the Globe : Images + Links

29 May 2013

Art and Architecture: The World’s Most Spectacular Museums

Hamburg, May 28, 2013 – That time-honored institution, the museum, is gradually being superseded. Increasingly, instead of old-fashioned exhibition rooms, it is gigantic event and experience locations that await the visitor. More often than not designed by star architects, many museums now count among the most impressive buildings of our time. As total works of art, it is not just the treasures within that fascinate, but also the breathtaking symbiosis of exhibits and architecture.

World’s Best Museum Developments

BMW World, Munich
Worlds Spectacular Museum Buildings
photo : Anton Schedlbauer

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Worlds Spectacular Museum Buildings
photo : Michael Hierner

Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
Worlds Spectacular Museum Buildings
photo : Centre Pompidou-Metz

A selection of the world’s most spectacular museums has now been compiled by a jury of building experts from Emporis, the international provider of building data. The list contains some of the most diverse museum buildings from all over the world – from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, opened in 1959, to the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar.

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Sir John Soane’s Museum Building London

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Phase II of the Sir John Soane’s Museum £7 million restoration project, Opening Up the Soane, (OUTS) will get off to a flying start this June – with the knowledge that Phase I of the project has won the 2013 Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors London Award for Best Conservation Project.