Tag Musei

05-01-2022

DnA Design and Architecture: Museum of Poetry, Songyang

In Songyang, China, Beijing-based firm DnA_Design and Architecture has restored the tombstone of poet Zhang Yuniang, once immersed in the forest and now absorbed into the urban system. This has also presented the opportunity to design a new poetry museum, thus breathing new life into a neglected corner of town.

16-12-2021

Narbo Via, new museum designed by Foster + Partners in Narbonne inaugurated

The Foster + Partners architecture firm has designed Narbo Via, the new museum of Roman antiquities in Narbonne, France. The museum was recently inaugurated and is set to become a new important landmark in the landscape, as well as an entrance to the city with a sober architectural monumentality.

22-11-2021

Fosbury Architecture designs Urban Centre at the Pecci Centre in Prato, Italy

On November 20 the new Urban Centre designed by the Fosbury Architecture collective was inaugurated inside the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art in Prato, Italy. A project that received strong support from the Municipality of Prato and the Fondazione per le Arti Contemporanee in Toscana. The new Urban Centre is a permanent laboratory and an observatory on urban transformations, but also a theatre, a space for immersive installations, a thriving place that will open up the museum to a more active participation on the part of citizens and will contribute to the city’s cultural landscape.

17-11-2021

Kossmann Dejong, an exhibition for The House of Artisans in Abu Dhabi

Designers from the Dutch Kossmann Dejong studio, together with Tellart, have created an exhibition on ancient crafts and artisanry at the House of Artisans, in Abu Dhabi. The exhibition concept has been fittingly revisited in an evocative architecture designed by architect Alex Franklin featuring a façade of woven wicker panels.

11-11-2021

Accessible art, the Depot of the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum designed by MVRDV

Getting closer to art has never been easier and more fascinating: thanks to the new depot of the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam, the immense collection of the famous Dutch museum becomes accessible to everyone. The large mirrored "bowl" designed by the MVRDV studio in the Museumspark has already become a popular city attraction, the second landmark created by the studio in its native city.

28-10-2021

MAD Hainan Science & Technology Museum Haikou City

MAD Architects, led by architect Ma Yansong, recently unveiled their design for the Hainan Science and Technology Museum which will be built in Haikou City, Hainan Province, China. The Museum, which was conceived as a meeting point between the lush tropical forest and the city with its advanced technologies, will serve as a scientific reference point for the entire province, as well as an important tourist attraction. The work is scheduled for completion in 2024.

28-10-2021

Estudio Herreros’ Munch Museum opens to the public in Oslo

The wait is over: MUNCH, the new museum in Oslo designed by award-winning Spanish architectural practice Estudio Herreros, is now open to the public. The building on the waterfront, one of the world’s biggest museums dedicated to a single artist, has altered the skyline of the Norwegian capital.

15-10-2021

Bruno Gaudin Architectes Library La Contemporaine campus of the Université Paris Nanterre

On the campus of the Université Paris Nanterre, the new building of the “Bibliothèque de Documentation Internationale Contemporaine” designed by Atelier Bruno Gaudin Architectes, has been completed. The building, constructed at the entrance to the university campus, houses the library, the archive centre, the museum and the offices of La Contemporaine. This is a major French institution, a point of reference in the field of humanities and social sciences studies that preserves and collects documents and objects relating to the contemporary history of the 20th and 21st centuries.