Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge building, England
Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, UK – design by architect George Basevi – Trumpington Street architecture, historic English building built in 1837-41
Museum building designs
Museum buildings designs and architects
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Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art: Riga Building
Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art in Riga. The Latvian Ministry of Culture plans to progress its first modern gallery design by Rem Koolhaas and Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA).
Shetland Museum Building: archives, café, shop, exhibitions
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.
Museum of World Culture Gothenburg
A new major national museum including exhibition galleries, university research centre, library, 200-person auditorium and restaurant.
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.
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 library design
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 pit visitor centre
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.