Tag Museums

03-06-2011

China Comic and Animation Museum: MVRDV wins the competition

MVRDV has won the design competition for the China Comic and Animation Museum.

30-05-2011

BIG’s "A Mosque for All" wins a competition in Tirana

BIG has won the competition on invitation for construction of an important Arab cultural centre in Albania, chosen over the studios of Andreas Perea Ortega, Architecture Studio, SeARCH and Zaha Hadid.

20-05-2011

Ermanno Preti designed the interiors of the JHD Dunant Hotel

Designer Ermanno Preti designed the interiors of the JHD Dunant Hotel in Castiglione delle Stiviere, due to open in May.

17-05-2011

Mies Van der Rohe Award for David Chipperfield

The museum in Berlin designed by David Chipperfield has won the Mies Van der Rohe Award – EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture. The award will be presented on June 20 at the Mies Van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona.

09-05-2011

Souto de Moura: Paula Rêgo Museum

Never sensationalist, Eduardo Souto de Moura’s architecture is determined by choices linked with the landscape, the meaning of the work and the details of the materials. These intentions are clearly expressed in his plan for Paula Rêgo Museum in Cascais, with its red cement, glass permitting contemplation of details and two pyramidal roofs making the building an architectural symbol in the landscape.

29-04-2011

Winners of the Young Architects’ Program announced

The annual young architects’ competition for installations in temporary spaces in the courtyard of MoMA PS1 in New York got MAXXI in Rome involved in 2011. The guidelines for both projects are tied to environmental sustainability and recycling.

19-04-2011

Exhibition, MoMA’s architecture and design acquisitions

An exhibition at MoMA presents to the public the museum’s architecture and design acquisitions since 2005. Drawings and designs by major 20th century architects such as Le Corbusier and contemporary architects such as Steven Holl, Renzo Piano...

28-03-2011

I MENDINI ARCHITETTI TESSITORI EXHIBITION

The exhibition on the work of the Mendini architects is the first in a series of initiatives intended to get young people involved in reflection on architecture and development of design creativity to be held in the former Valdagno incinerator, where Atelier Mendini created a permanent installation for the roof.