Tag Museums

08-06-2021

Snøhetta and Chatillon Architectes at the Musée Carnavalet in Paris

On May 29, 2021, after a long and extensive four-year restoration, the Musée Carnavalet in Paris reopened to the public. The renovation project was carried out by the Snøhetta and Chatillon Architectes firms. The renovated museum offers an enhanced visitors’ experience, providing a unique opportunity to travel through time to discover Paris’ rich history – a story told through the museum’s large collection of artefacts.

07-06-2021

ADI Design Museum - Compasso d'Oro inaugurated in Milan

The ADI Design Museum was inaugurated on May 25 in Milan, a new cultural hub for the city focused on narrating and promoting the Italian design system. The Museum will house the historical Compasso d'Oro collection, which consists of selected objects from 1954 to today, together with temporary exhibitions, thematic series, workshops and other events. The museum will also be home to a bookshop and a workshop for school-age children.

02-06-2021

The Yunshan Art Museum, designed “with love” by CROX and Yuan Gou Design

Chinese architectural firms CROX and Yuan Gou Design have recently completed work on the Yunshan Art Museum, constructed near Simian Mountain, a place of great natural beauty which is imbued with many different legends, all centred on the theme of love. When creating the museum and welcome centre, the architects focused on designing the interiors to echo the various natural elements that characterise the external environment. As such, the resulting rooms have taken on a contemporary and varied style which plays on the colours of the materials used to mark the transition from one zone of the building to the next, fluctuating between the warmth of wood and sterile feel of total white. The museum as a whole has been designed as a single, open-plan space with vast, fluid ‘rooms’ that intersect with one another.

24-05-2021

Tadao Ando La Bourse de Commerce Collection Pinault Paris

On May 22 a new contemporary art museum opened in Paris, the new permanent home of the Pinault Collection in the eighteenth-century Bourse de Commerce building. As in the restoration of Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana in Venice, the collection’s other permanent location, the transformation and restoration of the old building was entrusted to Japanese architect Tadao Ando.

14-05-2021

Kanva, the Montreal Biodome: a living museum

The Montreal Biodome has been given new life thanks to a project by architectural studio Kanva. One of Canada’s most popular museum spaces, it was opened in 1992 in the former velodrome of the 1976 Montreal Olympics. Kanva has renewed the structure and redesigned the museum concept to expand the immersive experience available to visitors.

06-05-2021

David Chipperfield Architects refurbishes the Neue Nationalgalerie designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, an icon of the Modern Movement designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe has been restored by David Chipperfield Architects Berlin. It is the last project, as well as the only building designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Europe after emigrating to the USA. A virtual ceremony was held on April 29 to inaugurate the refurbished building, while the museum is set to reopen its doors to the public in August 2021.

02-04-2021

A GWWO tower in Port Canaveral with an iridescent painted façade

Port Canaveral has a painted aluminium tower built for watching aerospace launches and serving as a lighthouse for the port

01-04-2021

Naturalis Biodiversity Centre in Leiden by Neutelings Riedijk

Dutch architectural practice Neutelings Riedijk has renewed and expanded the Netherlands’ national biodiversity research institute in Leiden. The new design focuses on Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, a set of sustainable buildings, both existing and newly built, containing space for more than 200 researchers and an important collection of 42 million objects.