Tag Museums

13-03-2020

Façade with concrete sunbreaks for the V&A Dundee Museum

Kengo Kuma’s first building in the United Kingdom is the V&A Dundee Museum, inspired by Scotland’s famous cliffs, but made of concrete in a contemporary formal idiom.

27-02-2020

Five years since The Broad opened in Los Angeles

Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Gensler, The Broad is a contemporary art museum in Los Angeles that opened in September 2015. The LEED Gold-certified architecture is launching celebrations for its fifth anniversary by naming its outdoor plaza for its long-time Leading Partner, East West Bank.

18-02-2020

Exhibition of projects submitted for the DAM Preis 2020 won by David Chipperfield Architects’ James Simon Galerie

Starting on 31 January 2020, Frankfurt’s DAM Deutsches Architekturmuseum hosts an exhibition about the projects entered for the DAM Preis 2020, a competition for the best architecture in Germany held since 2007. The winning project in 2020 is the James Simon Galerie in Berlin, designed by David Chipperfield Architects.

17-02-2020

Counterspace to design the Serpentine Pavilion 2020

The firm that will design the new Serpentine Pavilion, the temporary structure that every year hosts the summer programming of the Serpentine Galleries in London's Kensington Gardens, was announced on February 10. The firm selected is the Counterspace architecture studio based in Johannesburg (South Africa), led by architects Sumayya Vally, Sarah de Villiers and Amina Kaskar and, as per tradition, the pavilion will be their first work in the United Kingdom.

13-02-2020

Countryside, The Future exhibition by AMO / Rem Koolhaas at the New York Guggenheim

Radical changes in vast rural areas on earth are forcing architects to address urgent environmental, political and socio-economic issues. The New York Guggenheim looks at these issues through the eyes of architect and urban planner Rem Koolhass and AMO, the think tank of his studio, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), in the exhibition Countryside, The Future.

11-02-2020

A travelling museum by Héctor Ayarza for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Panama City

The Museo De Arte Contemporaneo (MAC) is a private collection of contemporary art from Panama and Latin America located in Panama City. The project entitled "El Contenedor MAC" seeks to expand the scope of the museum. Basically, this is a travelling museum formed of two shipping containers, designed by the Panama-based architect Héctor Ayarza.

11-02-2020

8 projects receive the AIA’s 2020 Architecture Awards

The American Institute of Architects has announced the eight projects that have won the 2020 Architecture Awards. Eight contemporary architecture projects, chosen independently of the size, style and type of building to represent the best architects can create for improving life for everyone.

31-01-2020

Barozzi Veiga’s brick Lausanne Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts

Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, Lausanne’s Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, is a dust-coloured brick building with a front wall marked at regular intervals by vertical fins that break up its 350-metre façade.