Downland Gridshell, Sussex Museum Building
Edward Cullinan Architects collaborated with the engineers Buro Happold and Green Oak Carpentry Company to develop this innovative, award- winning low energy structure.
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Te Papa Museum, Wellington, NZ Building
Te Papa Museum, Wellington, New Zealand – design by Jasmax, architects – Architecture, key building on the habour at 55 Cable Street
Dunfermline Museum Competition, Scotland
Organisers: The Dunfermline Museum and Library Competition was advertised in 2006 and coordinated by the RIAS & Fife Council, site: adj. Dunfermline Abbey & first Carnegie Library, central Dunfermline, west Fife.
Woodhorn Colliery, Ashington Museum
Woodhorn Colliery, Ashington, Northumberland was a working pit from 1894 – 1981. It opened as a museum in 1989, using the original listed pit buildings to describe mining in Northumberland.
Museum Het Valkhof Nijmegen: UN Studio
Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, built in 1995-1998, with a program of museum for contemporary art and Archaeology, gross floor surface: 6.100 m², volume: 40.000 m³
Yakutsk Building: World Mammoth Museum
Leeser Architecture has won the international competition for the World Mammoth and Permafrost Museum in the city of Yakutsk in the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia in the center of Siberia.
Royal Ontario Museum, ROM Toronto
Royal Ontario Museum Toronto: Michael Lee-Chin Crystal building design by Daniel Libeskind architect: the program provides a wonderful opportunity for dramatic new architecture and the creation of a great public attraction.
Van Gogh Museum Building: Kisho Kurokawa
Van Gogh Museum building, Amsterdam, Holland design by Kisho Kurokawa architect – Netherlands, Dutch architecture: images of modern building
Folkwang Museum Essen: David Chipperfield
Following an international competition David Chipperfield Architects has been appointed by Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung to design the new Folkwang Museum in Essen, Germany. The competition jury made their decision on 13 March 2007.
Museum Liner Appenzell, Switzerland, Building
The museum building, dedicated to the oeuvre of Appenzell artists Carl August Liner and his son, Carl Walter Liner, belongs to the category of the monographic museum.
Brooklyn Children’s Museum New York
Rafael Viñoly Architects’ expansion of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, located at the intersection of Brooklyn Avenue and St. Marks Avenue in Crown Heights, has reached substantial completion. It is applying for LEED certification at the Silver level, which will make it New York City’s first LEED-certified museum upon approval.
Nuragic & Contemporary Art Museum Sardinia
The new museum for Cagliari serves as a landmark for the city – welcoming visitors from the sea, sharing its public dimension with the urban complex through a network of public paths.
Mercedes Benz Museum Stuttgart, Germany
The new Mercedes-Benz Museum is located next to highway B14 at the entrance of Stuttgart. The museum covers 16,500 m2 of exhibition space for the historical collection of Mercedes-Benz, which consists of 160 cars.
Ordrupgaard Copenhagen Museum Building
The Ordrupgaard Museum needed a new structure in which to display permanent and temporary collections, alongside a new café, according to Zaha Hadid Architects.
V&A Gallery London Victoria & Albert Museum
V&A Gallery London: Victoria & Albert Museum exhibition spaces – design by Gareth Hoskins Architects – V&A Gallery, London architecture gallery proposal