Tag Museums

10-11-2011

Claudio Nardi: Mocak in Krakow

Viewing industrial architecture as a link between the past and present of a place, Claudio Nardi and Leonardo Maria Proli have converted the old Schindler cookware factory, the place where 1200 Jews were saved from extermination by the Nazis, into a contemporary art museum (Mocak).

02-11-2011

Zaha Hadid wins the 2011 RIBA Stirling Prize

Zaha Hadid has won the RIBA Stirling Prize, a prestigious British award, for the second consecutive year. The Iraqi architect was awarded the prize in 2010 for her MAXXI museum in Rome.

27-10-2011

Brooks + Scarpa, Contemporary Art Museum

The new museum designed by Brooks + Scarpa of California looks like a light butterfly rising into the air out of its brick cocoon.

14-10-2011

EXHIBITION OF PROJECTS FROM MAXXI’S ARCHITECTURE COLLECTIONS

Projects by Carlo Aymonino, Michele de Lucchi, Toyo Ito, Sergio Musmeci, Ludovico Quaroni, Aldo Rossi, Paolo Soleri, Tommaso and Gilberto Valle, and others are on view at MAXXI Architettura in Rome in the first exhibition of works from the museum’s permanent collection.

13-10-2011

NATURE... CAMPO BAEZA. EL ÁRBOL DE LA CREACIÓN

The third in the cycle of “Nature” exhibitions has opened at Maxxi, presenting the works and projects of architect Alberto Campo Baeza.

04-10-2011

Milano Design Weekend

"Diamoci del tu. Dialoghi fra arte e design" (“Let’s be familiar: Dialogues between art and design”) is the motto of the second Milano Design Weekend: a weekend of furniture shopping with related design, art, architecture and music events.

12-09-2011

Steven Holl: Cité de l’Océan et du Surf

Inaugurated on June 25 2011, Cité de l’Océan et du Surf was built around the symbols of the sea and sports that make Biarritz the top tourist destination in Basque France. Competition winner Steven Holl uses the shape of the coastline as his starting point for creation of an underground museum, the roof of which becomes a plaza from which to admire the ocean.

08-09-2011

New Salvador Dalí Museum is both resistant and sustainable

The new