Museum building designs

Museum buildings designs and architects

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Perm Museum, Russian Architecture Competition

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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

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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

Pushkin Museum Moscow Building Extension

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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

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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.

Ara Pacis Museum Rome: Richard Meier

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Ara Pacis Augustae Rome

Rome’s new mayor announced on 30 Apr his intention to destroy the museum building designed by Richard Meier that was only completed in 2006. Mayor Gianni Alemanno claimed it isn’t his top priority though.

Shetland Museum Building, Archives, Scotland

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Shetland Museum Building

Shetland Museum and Archives, designed by BDP, has won the Gold Award in this year’s Wood Awards. The project was shortlisted in three categories, and won the Commercial and Public Access category, eventually going on to win the top prize at the award ceremony.

Dunfermline Museum Competition, Scotland

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Dunfermline Museum Competition design by Malcolm Fraser Architects

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

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Woodhorn Colliery, Ashington Museum, Northumberland

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.