Yingxiu Memorial Museum Building
During the earthquake as the rock fell from the mountains and the buildings collapsed the atmosphere was engulfed with dust, the light disappeared and it was difficult to breathe.
Museum building designs
Museum buildings designs and architects
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Petter Dass Museum: Alstahaug Building
The projects involved designing a new 1350 sqm museum building, a landscape plan for the surrounding site, parking facilities and a service building.
KMSKA Building Antwerp: Koninklijk Museum
The assignment for Antwerp’s Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten (KMSKA) consists of the drawing up of a Master Plan for the extension and restoration of the museum; and this encompasses more than purely physical changes to the building.
Grand Egyptian Museum Cairo, heneghan.peng
The proposal for the Grand Egyptian Museum begins by forming a new ‘edge’ to the Plateau, by creating a gentle slope as a thin veil of translucent stone structured by fractal geometry
Museum Insel Hombroich, Neuss – Germany
Landscaping by Bernhard Korte. Pavilions designed by the sculptor Erwin Heerich. Location: south west of Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia
Kazerne Dossin Museum Mechelen building, Belgium
Kazerne Dossin Museum Mechelen design: Claus en Kaan Architecten: restoration, renovation & restructuring of the building and its surroundings to a memorial, museum and documentation centre.
Art Museum of Yue Minjun, Studio Pei-Zhu building
On one hand, there are fantastic landscapes for Qingcheng Mountain, with continuous brooks and wreathed mist…On the other hand, there are private art galleries, with extremely personal art attitudes and contemporary features…
Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery
Designed by architects Allies and Morrison for client Exeter City Council, an intricate £10m scheme combining a contemporary new extension with a sensitive refurbishment of existing Victorian galleries at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, has just started construction in Exeter’s historic city centre
Wing Luke Asian Museum Seattle – Architect, USA
Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects have designed the new Wing Luke Asian Museum, scheduled to open on May 31, 2008. The firm’s design preserves and restores the historic fabric of the East Kong Yick Building and offers new and expanded space to the Wing Luke Asian Museum, a Smithsonian Institution affiliate.
Newseum Washington DC Building, USA
The Newseum was an interactive museum that promoted free expression and the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, while tracing the evolution of communication. As of December 31, 2019, the Newseum closed its doors
Muritzeum Germany: Lake Herrensee building
At the side of the motorway between Rostock and Berlin stands a brown sign with the stylised drawing of the “Müritzeum”. A sign that says there is something worth seeing!
Muritzeum, Waren Building, Germany
The building at Lake Herrensee, Germany, extends out like a peninsular in Herrensee and personifies elements essentially different from one another as solid ground and water.
Perm Museum, Russian Architecture Competition
The skin is envisioned as a hybrid shell-like system with two-way spanning characteristics that exhibit both robustness and efficiency. Folded-plate trusses span along the first principle axis.
Perm Museum Architecture Competition
For new museum center building for Perm Art Gallery, Perm, Russia. Organiser C:CA / Center of Contemporary Architecture, Moscow, In collaboration with Union of Russian Architects
Waterloo History Museum Ottawa building
Situating the Region of Waterloo History Museum at Doon Heritage Crossroads has provided many unique and exciting opportunities for the building’s architecture.
Pushkin Museum Moscow Building Extension
The Pushkin is the finest museum of European art in Moscow and one of the world’s great cultural institutions. Building on the experience of projects such as the Carré d’Art in Nîmes and the Great Court at the British Museum, this masterplan aims to establish a thriving cultural quarter focused on the Pushkin.
Miami Art Museum Landscape, PAMM: Pérez
Laurinda Spear recently launched a new landscape architecture practice, ArquitectonicaGEO: her young firm was selected to work with celebrated Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron on the much-anticipated Pérez Art Museum, or PAMM.