The latest new museums – best of the week

Museums and museum projects are featured in this week’s “best of the week news” - an opportunity to see how architects in different parts of the world interpret places for the conservation and transmission of culture, art and memories of all kinds.

Let’s start with recent museum projects in Italy: the Messner Mountain Museum Corones designed by Zaha Hadid, the most recent of six museums dedicated to the mountains of climber Reinhold Messner, and the Fondazione Prada museum by architect Rem Koolhaas and OMA.

We go on to look at Baksi Museum in Bayburt, Turkey, winner of the "2014 Museum of the Year" award presented by the European Parliament Commission for Culture. Herzog & de Meuron designed the new Parrish Art Museum, making a bold oblique mark on the green gardens with a “horizontal landmark”. Relationship with context is important in the new expansion for Gosta Serlachius Museum in Mänttä (Finland), designed by the Spanish studio MX_SI. Also in Finland, this summer it was announced that the "Art in the City" project by architects Nicolas Moreau and Hiroko Kusunoki of Moreau Kusunoki Architectes has won the international design competition for the Helsinki Guggenheim Museum.

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