Tag Museums

04-11-2015

Interview with Shigeru Ban

Winner of the 2014 Pritzker Prize Shigeru Ban talks about his recent projects at the “Archi-Depot Tokyo” exhibition at Triennale di Milano. Shigeru Ban discusses his intuition of mobile screens for the Oita Prefectural Art Museum and his contribution to reconstruction after the earthquake in Nepal in April 2015.

13-10-2015

Renzo Piano Building Workshop Progetti d'Acqua exhibition Pegli Genoa

Pegli Nautical Museum in Genoa hosts the exhibition Progetti d'acqua (Water Projects), looking at the relationship between water and architecture in the work of Renzo Piano Building Workshop.

09-10-2015

The latest new museums – best of the week

From Nicolas Moreau + Hiroko Kusunoki’s plans for the new Helsinki Guggenheim to Zara Hadid’s Messner Mountain Museum Corones, here’s an overview of some of the new museum projects covered in Floornature recently.

05-10-2015

Zaha Hadid winds the RIBA 2016 Royal Gold Medal

Architect Zaha Hadid will be the first woman to receive the Royal Gold Medal, the prestigious prize awarded by RIBA to architects “whose work has promoted either directly or indirectly the advancement of architecture".

30-09-2015

OMA-Rem Koolhaas and the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow

In June 2015 the doors opened on the new Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, the latest example of the architectural philosophy of Rem Koolhaas (OMA) for places of culture and entertainment. The OMA project for the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow is located in the heart of the city’s Gorky Park.

21-09-2015

LAC Lugano Arte Cultura designed by architect Ivano Gianola opens

The 12th September saw the opening of the LAC Lugano Arte Cultura arts centre, designed by architect Ivano Gianola, a project that aims to become the vital heart of the city.

16-09-2015

Architecture by Herzog & de Meuron on display at the Vancouver Art Gallery

The concept design of the new Vancouver Art Gallery designed by Herzog & de Meuron will be revealed only at the end of September, in the meantime and until 4th October the Canadian Gallery is hosting the exhibition Material Future: The Architecture of Herzog & de Meuron and the Vancouver Art Gallery, dedicated to architecture and to the work of the Herzog & de Meuron studio.

14-09-2015

Finalists of the Mies van der Rohe Award 2015 on show at Bozar, Brussels

The winning design and the finalists of the Mies van der Rohe Award 2015, the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture, will be on display from 16th September at BOZAR/Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels.