Tag Museums

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.

02-06-2020

Back to the Present, new installation at the Städel in Frankfurt

Almost ten years after completing its new, iconic subterranean halls, the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, Germany has reorganised its collection of contemporary art displaying works from 1945 to now. It’s a new presentation called Back to the Present - New Perspectives, New Works - The Collection from 1945 to the Present.

24-04-2020

Mallol Arquitectos’ Museo de la Libertad

Mallol Arcquitectos, Central America’s most important architectural studio, has completed a project of great symbolic value, Panama’s Museo de la Libertad y los Derechos Umanos. Funded by the Democracia y Libertad foundation, the museum contains a large interactive permanent exhibition on three floors, plus administrative offices. The building is the first in a complex that will contain three volumes when completed, located to the west of the city next to a park full of trees, which have all been preserved, and employs passive ventilation techniques made possible by the area’s temperate climate.

03-04-2020

MAD’s Wood Sculpture Museum is made of glossy steel

The Wood Sculpture Museum in Harbin, China is a building clad in glossy steel

27-03-2020

Floating melodies: the Crox Group’s Liyang Museum

In the city of Liyang, in eastern China, architecture and landscape design studio Crox Group has completed an impressive public building: Liyang Museum, the city’s new key landmark, not so much for its 12,000 metres of floor space as for its unique futuristic shape, designed specifically for the volume containing the museum. The plans were on display in the “Time Space Existence” exhibition at the 2018 Biennale in Venice.