Tag Museums

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.

10-01-2020

Musée des Confluences in steel, glass and concrete by Coop Himmelb(l)au

In Lyon, the Musée des Confluences is a complex deconstructivist building with interesting innovative structural and bio-climatic features.

06-01-2020

Welcome 2020. The top architectures of the last ten years

On the threshold of a new decade, what better occasion is there for looking around and rediscovering the most significant architectures of the last ten years, taking stock of the past and looking towards the future.

30-10-2019

MoMA in New York reopens after expansion project by Diller Scofidio + Renfro

The MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York reopened its doors on October 21, 2019, unveiling its new look to the public after the extension project designed by the Diller Scofidio + Renfro firm, in collaboration with Gensler. The expansion will allow the museum to exhibit a significant number of works using new interdisciplinary methods.

20-09-2019

Twelfth Beazley Designs of the Year exhibition at the Design Museum, London

The Design Museum announces the 76 nominees for the twelfth Beazley Designs of the Year exhibition and awards – revealing the most innovative designs of the last 12 months. Accessible designs represent a major theme in this year’s awards, ranging from furniture to fashion.

13-09-2019

Prefabricated concrete facade for MÉCA by BIG & FREAKS

MÉCA by BIG & FREAKS is a bridge-shaped structure clad in sandblasted reinforced concrete panels

06-09-2019

Tenax and Twaron for the Stedelijk Museum by Benthem Crouwel Architects

Stedelijk Museum extension completed with steel structure clad in composite plastic Tenax and Twaron

23-08-2019

The 2019 Art Fund Museum of the Year is the St Fagans National Museum of History

The winner of the 2019 Art Fund Museum of the Year, the annual prize awarded to the best museums in the United Kingdom, was announced on 3rd July 2019. The prize was awarded to the St Fagans National Museum of History in Cardiff, and the shortlisted museums included the HMS Caroline in Belfast, the Nottingham Contemporary in Nottingham, the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, and the V&A Dundee in Scotland.