Set to open on June 17, the Tate Modern Switch House, designed by masterminds Herzog & de Meuron and named after the part of the power station that the new galleries occupy, expands the museum by 60% to accommodate the surging numbers of visitors, which reached 5.7 million last year. Take a look at the complete […] More
Architecture Snøhetta have completed the extension building to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts. Snøhetta’s expansion reimagines SFMOMA as a new art experience and gateway into the city of San Francisco. Take a look at the complete story after the jump. More
Japanese arhitect Toyo Ito designed this Interactive museum that showcases the best of international baroque pieces from Brazil, Cuba, China, Spain, France, United States, Guatemala, Peru, Portugal and 21 museums besides Mexican foundations. More
Architecture studio Tate Harmer have designed a new entrance hall – or ‘sinking shaft’ for the Brunel museum thar has reopened to the public for the first time in 150 years. Take a look at the complete story below. More
Coffey Architects have designed the Dana Research Centre and Library with a perforated facade to London’s Science Museum, as part of a major redevelopment that will also include galleries by Muf, Wilkinson Eyre and Zaha Hadid. More
Since 2002, the overpopulated city of Zhengzhou has been developing its new financial center, Zhengdong New Area, within China’s Central Plains Economic Region. The area, once dubbed by international media as one of China’s largest “ghost districts”, is where Crossboundaries’ latest completed project – Soyoo Joyful Growth Center, is situated. The building is part of […] More
Rome based architecture practice Paolo Venturella Architecture shares with us their design proposal for their Glacial Glazed Museum in Weimar, Germany. Take a look at the complete story after the jump. More
The Element House is a modular home designed to operate independent of public utility services by integrating passive systems that allow for e-generation and off-the-grid living opportunities in virtually any location. The shape of the house is derived from the Fibonacci sequence, which is a describer of developmental patterns in living organisms. This mathematical series was […] More
The Biesbosch Museum in Werkendam has undergone an eight-month redesign by Studio Marco Vermeulen and has been finally opened to the public in summer 2015.Take a closer look at the new museum below. More
Christ & Gantenbein have designed a new wing for the National Museum in Zurich. Set to open to the public in July 2016, the new wing provides exhibition galleries, an auditorium and a library for the 118-year-old museum, which houses the largest collection of cultural and historical objects in Switzerland. The raw concrete chosen by […] More
The La Gota Cultural Center and Tobacco Museum, located in Navalmoral de la Mata, Spain was designed by Ramiro Losada and Alberto García. It is a hybrid building, hosting temporary exhibition spaces, a permanent exhibition for the painter Sofia Feliu and a Tobacco Museum. Take a look at the complete story after the jump. More
Architects Ifat Finkelman and Deborah Warschawski have teamed up to build a wooden structure around an old pine tree to update a courtyard space at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Situated at the entrance of the museum’s Wing for Art Education, the IMJ Tree House provides a gathering point for both adult and children visitors. “As […] More