Tag Museums

02-03-2022

Killa Design Museum of the Future Dubai

February 22 saw the inauguration of Dubai’s new Museum of the Future, designed by Killa Design for the Dubai Future Foundation, an iconic building that stands out in the Arabian city and aspires to become a new world landmark in science. The construction itself is futuristic, designed entirely using BIM, and will contain a permanent exhibition about all aspects of the future, in all sectors.

17-02-2022

Kengo Kuma’s musée départemental Albert-Kahn in Boulogne-Billancourt

Musée départemental Albert-Kahn in Boulogne-Billancourt, just outside Paris, will reopen to the public in March following the conclusion of restoration work and completion of a new building designed by architect Kengo Kuma. The entire 4-hectare park containing not only the gardens and various structures but the home of Albert Kahn and Les Archives de la Planète has been registered in France’s list of Monuments Historiques since 2015.

14-02-2022

Remembering the past in the Chinese countryside: LLLab’s WAAAM

Chinese studio LLLab designed WAAAM, a museum of art and architecture in Beigou, Beijing testifying to the great impact of rural revitalisation on the local community. The museum adopts a critical approach to local materials, casting new light on them and expressing their characteristics in accordance with a contemporary artistic sensibility.

04-02-2022

Coop Himmelb(l)au’s filtering roof for Akron Museum

Coop Himmelb(l)au’s expansion of Akron Museum in the state of Ohio is covered by a filtering roof of steel

13-01-2022

Foster + Partners’ Datong Art Museum opens

The new "Datong Art Museum" designed by Foster + Partners opened recently, providing a new “urban living room” for this ancient city in the far north of the Chinese province of Shanxi: a sculptural construction that emerges out of the ground with a series of interconnected pyramids surrounded by landscaped plazas, concealing the exhibition spaces of the main gallery underground.

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.

20-12-2021

CollectionCentre Netherlands, sustainability and culture

Working together to create the new CollectionCentre Netherlands (CC NL) in Amersfoort, a space containing over 500 thousand items from various Dutch collections, the architects of Cepezed designed the interiors in close collaboration with ABT for stability, Valstar Simonis for installations and Peutz for building physics and sustainability.

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.