Tag Museums

07-03-2018

Christ & Gantenbein: expansion of the Landesmuseum in Zurich

Christ & Gantenbein were involved in the renovation and expansion of the Landesmuseum, the Swiss national museum in Zurich. Christ & Gantenbein’s new body arises out of the older historicist museum, completing the idea of an island of culture in the heart of Zurich.

21-02-2018

Heatherwick Studio: Zeitz MOCAA-Museum of Contemporary Art Africa

A construction with a well-known shape towers above the waterfront in Cape Town, South Africa, but it’s overall image has been completely transformed to contain Zeitz MOCAA, a museum of contemporary African art designed by Heatherwick Studio.

16-02-2018

Kengo Kuma’s V&A Dundee due to open in September

Scotland’s first design museum is due to open on September 15, 2018, designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, who first visited the completed construction on February 9.

15-02-2018

Jean Nouvel: Louvre Abu Dhabi

A dome 180 metres in diameter makes Jean Nouvel’s Louvre Abu Dhabi a new landmark. Opened in 2017 after more than 10 years of design and construction work, Jean Nouvel’s Louvre Abu Dhabi is the symbol of the new cultural district the Arab world is building to designs by the great archistars.

07-02-2018

COOP HIMMELB(L)AU: PANEUM – Wunderkammer des Brotes, Asten

PANEUM - Wunderkammer des Brotes, an information centre and event forum in Asten, Austria, is a concrete and timber pavilion about the history of bread. Designed by Wolf D. Prix’s COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, it is a freestanding structure in which an organic shape contrasts with a minimalist base.