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Museum building designs

Museum buildings designs and architects

e-architect select museum building designs from around the World. Discover architecture projects information, news and pictures of the best new building designs globally.

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Niu He Liang Museum, Chaoyang, Chengdu

September 29, 2024June 1, 2010 by Adrian Welch
Niu He Liang Museum, Chaoyang, Chengdu

Using a simple arched structure to span the area of the excavation zone, this proposal creates a singular external expression and a modulating, internal spatial experience.

Categories China architecture designs Tags Museum building designs

Anchorage Building, Rasmuson Center Alaska

October 21, 2023May 21, 2010 by Isabelle Lomholt
Anchorage Museum building in Alaska

The Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center and ConocoPhillips Gallery – the final public spaces in David Chipperfield Architects’ project for the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center.

Categories Alaska architecture: buildings Tags Museum building designs

Great North Museum, Newcastle Building

September 8, 2020May 20, 2010 by Isabelle Lomholt
Great North Museum, Newcastle Building

Great North Museum Newcastle, north east England, design by Terry Farrell Architects: Jesmond building previously known as the Hancock Museum, Date built: 1884, Status: Grade II-listed building.

Categories Newcastle buildings designs Tags Museum building designs

Museo del Agua de Palencia, Spain Building

August 19, 2020May 12, 2010 by David McManus
Museo del Agua de Palencia

The construction of a Channel that would communicate the inner Castilla with Reinosa to allow the surplus cereals to be transported and finally reach the Santander seaport was started in the mid eighteenth century.

Categories Spain architecture design Tags Museum building designs

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Richmond building

November 10, 2023May 7, 2010 by Isabelle Lomholt
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts building Richmond

The new 15,330m2 (165,000 sq.ft) McGlothlin Wing opens VMFA up to the city and provides extensive new space for the museum’s collections and study centre.

Categories America architecture news Tags Art galleries buildings, Museum building designs

Rockbund Art Museum: Shanghai Building

May 30, 2019April 30, 2010 by Adrian Welch
Rockbund Art Museum Shanghai building by DCA in China

An ensemble of historic buildings, now called the Rockbund Project, reflects the diversity of the colonial architecture and forms the Northern part of the Bund.

Categories Shanghai buildings design Tags Art galleries buildings, Museum building designs

The Hubs Sheffield National Museum of Pop Music

August 27, 2020April 19, 2010 by David McManus

The Hubs Sheffield, former National Museum of Pop Music, South Yorkshire, England, design by Nigel Coates Architects at 6 Paternoster Row, building photos

Categories Leeds architecture: buildings Tags Museum building designs

Urbis Manchester Conference Centre

October 19, 2024April 17, 2010 by Adrian Welch

Urbis is an exhibition and museum venue in Manchester, England, designed by Ian Simpson and completed in 2002. From 2002 to 2010, the centre hosted changing exhibits on popular-culture themes including urban living, art, music, fashion, photography and videogames alongside talks, gigs and special events.

Categories Manchester buildings design Tags Museum building designs

National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design

February 13, 2020April 13, 2010 by David McManus
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design Norway

National Museum of Art Architecture and Design Norway Competition: the three winners are all entitled to participate in a subsequent negotiated procedure. Subjects for negotiation will include price and feasibility.

Categories Norway architecture design Tags Design competitions news, Museum building designs

Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec

March 8, 2025April 9, 2010 by Adrian Welch
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec

Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, museum competition Canada by Saucier + Perrotte Architectes – Canadian building images. In 2010 Allied Works was a finalist in the international contest

Categories Canada architecture design Tags Design competitions news, Museum building designs

Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec Montréal

March 5, 2025April 2, 2010 by Adrian Welch
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec - Quebec Museum

Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, museum competition Canada – architect, building images – Canadian architecture contest news. Located on a historic site – 110,000 square foot pavilion

Categories Canada architecture design Tags Design competitions news, Museum building designs

Lightcatcher Building: Whatcom Museum Seattle

December 28, 2020April 2, 2010 by David McManus
Lightcatcher Building: Whatcom Museum, Seattle

Designed by Olson Kundig Architects’ founding partner, Jim Olson, the Lightcatcher is named for its focal point and most innovative feature – a spectacular, translucent wall 37 feet high and 180 feet long that captures the Northwest’s most precious natural resource, sunlight.

Categories Seattle architecture designs Tags Museum building designs

Reina Sofia Museum of Modern Art, Spain

January 27, 2022March 30, 2010 by Isabelle Lomholt

In 1989, Ian Ritchie Architects were invited to contribute their architectural and glass design engineering skills to the creation of the new Reina Sofia Museum of Modern Art (Centro Arte Reina Sofia – CARS) being undertaken by Madrid’s Ministry of Culture with the architects Castro and Onzono.

Categories Madrid architecture designs Tags Art galleries buildings, Museum building designs

Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana

December 23, 2019March 29, 2010 by Isabelle Lomholt
Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana

Architecturally challenging was the restoration of the protected historic structure of. the ex army barracks area built in the 19th century which has served the military government in the past, and is intended to be used for art in the future providing exhibition, storage and office spaces.

Categories Slovenia architecture design Tags Art galleries buildings, Museum building designs

Forum Limbach: Burgenland Building, Austria

April 18, 2022March 25, 2010 by Isabelle Lomholt
Forum Limbach: Burgenland Building, Austria

The new building, fitted into the historically grown farmyard structure, closes the rural square edifice and at the same time opens up the previously enclosed inner yard

Categories Austria architecture designs Tags Museum building designs

Swiss Museum Of Transport, Switzerland

April 23, 2019March 25, 2010 by Isabelle Lomholt
Swiss Museum Of Transport Building

The current project is based on the 1999 competition. At that point the brief represented an urban design vision for the gradual renovation of the museum complex with its various buildings exhibiting the different means of transport, as well as a new building for the Road Transport Hall.

Categories Switzerland buildings designs Tags Museum building designs

Murcia Museum Building: Federico Soriano Spain

October 18, 2019March 24, 2010 by Isabelle Lomholt
Paleontology and Human Evolution Museum, Murcia

Murcia Museum building by S&Aa – Soriano & Asociados arquitectos – in location: Torre Pacheco, Murcia, España Architects: Federico Soriano, Dolores Palacios

Categories Spain architecture design Tags Museum building designs
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