Tag Museums

09-10-2020

MVRDV completes construction of Rotterdam’s Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen

Rotterdam’s Museumpark recently saw the completion of construction of Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, designed by architectural practice MVRDV. This unusual bowl-shaped building, lined with mirrors and with a hanging garden on the roof, will become the world’s first art deposit open to the public, due to be officially opened in the autumn of 2021.

22-09-2020

State of Extremes exhibition at Design Museum Holon

In 2010, the inaugural exhibition at the Design Museum Holon in Israel, designed by the architect Ron Arad was The State of Things. This international exhibition showcased design as a landscape of objects. Ten years down the track, State of Extremes instead describes a world that has changed, and with it, design and the practice of design.

09-09-2020

David Chipperfield Architects design the Carmen Würth Forum in Künzelsau, Germany

On June 28, the "Carmen Würth Forum" cultural and congress centre opened its doors to the public. The complex was designed for the Adolf Würth firm in the town of Künzelsau, Germany, by the Berlin office of David Chipperfield Architects. The intervention that was recently concluded is a "second phase", an extension that includes a congress area and an art museum which completes the concert and event halls inaugurated in 2017 and also designed by the Berlin-based David Chipperfield Architects firm.

02-09-2020

Guggenheim Bilbao, great artworks to enjoy at the Museum

Many museums have started reopening after the pandemic outbreak, and one of these is the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain. An icon of 20th-century architecture and at the same time, a treasure trove of significant artworks and fascinating exhibitions, including Olafur Eliasson’s In Real Life.

07-08-2020

Diller Scofidio + Renfro designs US Olympic and Paralympic Museum in Colorado

On July 30, the US Olympic and Paralympic Museum designed by architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro was inaugurated in Colorado Springs, US. The museum is a tribute to all Team USA Olympic and Paralympic athletes. Its shape allows visitors with and without disabilities to access the exhibition galleries, following a single continuous spiralling pathway and sharing a common experience.

03-08-2020

atelierpng redevelops Fort L'Écluse in Léaz

Fort L'Écluse in Léaz has been renovated to plans by atelierpng in a project developed in perfect harmony with the historic memory of this military structure and the landscape around it. The fort has been transformed repeatedly over the years, destroyed, rebuilt, amplified and adapted for different uses; today, the redeveloped fort becomes a major tourist attraction in a splendid natural setting.

20-07-2020

The Shuyang Art Gallery by UAD a showcase for traditional calligraphy

The Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University (UAD) has designed an art gallery which focuses on traditional Chinese calligraphy in Shuyang, China, the birthplace of this art. The striking materiality of this architecture is set off by the three fundamental colours of Chinese calligraphy - black, white and red.

10-07-2020

Previews of the future: MAD unveils its plans for Shenzhen Bay Culture Park

MAD Architects, under architect Ma Yansong, has revealed the masterplan for Shenzhen Bay Culture Park, which will also include the Creative Design Hall and Shenzhen Science and Technology Museum. The architect models the green area to create a work of land art in a park that serves the design of the buildings while offering the public a visionary concept of the city in which to establish a new way of perceiving space and time.

24-06-2020

Premio Italiano di Architettura 2020 Award for Lifetime Achievement assigned to Renzo Piano

Triennale di Milano and Maxxi, the National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome, with the support of MiBACT, the Italian culture ministry, held the first edition of Premio Italiano di Architettura, the Italian Prize for Architecture, in 2020. The first prize to be presented is the Award for Lifetime Achievement, which goes to Renzo Piano, the 1998 Pritzker Prize winning architect with a life-long appointment to the Italian senate. The awards ceremony will be held at Maxxi in Rome on June 30, on the occasion of the opening of the YAP Rome at MAXXI 2020 project, when the winners in the categories for the best built projects will be announced.