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German department store to become concert hall and music school

Danish designer Adept Architects has won an international competition to turn a former department store into a concert hall in the German city of Braunschweig. The 18,000-sq-m project will put…

Architect wins top Biennale prize with coffee made from Venice canal water

Architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro has won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Biennale for their “Canal Café”, an installation that serves espresso made from the city’s murky canal…

Signature architects vie for Missouri art museum extension

Six finalists – a veritable who’s who of architects – have been shortlisted for a $160m extension to Kansas City, Missouri’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The 61,000-sq-ft expansion will add…

OMA to expand Manhattan’s New Museum

The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has been selected to design a 60,000 sq ft extension to a contemporary art gallery in Manhattan. The New Museum was designed by Japanese…

Construction starts on Zaha Hadid Architect’s Centre of Mediterranean Culture

Work has begun on the Centre of Mediterranean Culture, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) for a site on the Strait of Messina between Sicily and the Italian mainland. The…

Asif Khan designs Kazakhstan cultural centre in Soviet-era cinema

The Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture will open at a new permanent home in the 1964 Tselinny cinema, formerly the largest Soviet cinema in Central Asia, in a project overseen…

Bjarke Ingels Group wins Kosovo competition with skirt-shaped opera house

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels Group has won a competition to design an opera and ballet theatre in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo. The 42,395 sq m timber structure will be…

Mad Architects’ migrant art museum to open in Rotterdam in May

Beijing-based Mad Architects has announced that its design for the Fenix Museum of Migration in Rotterdam will shortly open to the public. Commissioned by the Droom en Daad (Dreams Come…

Frida Escobedo design chosen for new Metropolitan Museum of Art wing

A 1.2ha extension of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has been designed by Mexican architect Frida Escobedo to house part of the museum’s 20th and 21st-century collection. The wing…

Zaha Hadid Architects chosen to design Zhejiang cultural centre

UK firm Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has been selected to design a cultural centre for the international productions of opera, dance and drama in Zhejiang, about 30km south of Shanghai.…

Work is finished on Studio Gang’s mass-timber extension for Californian art college

Work has been completed on an expansion designed by New York architect Studio Gang for the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. The concrete ground-floor level houses workshops…

OMA to renovate Perth’s mid-century brutalist concert hall

The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has been selected by the government of Western Australia to work with local architect WITH on the refurbishment of the Perth Concert Hall. The…

Poland’s uprising museum is “tribute to origins” of the country

The 1918-19 Greater Poland Uprising Museum in Poznan, designed by local architect WXCA, has broken ground. The museum is intended to provide “a space for shared memory”, made up of…

Zaha Hadid Architects designs Uzbekistan science and literature centre

UK firm Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has unveiled the design for the Alisher Navoi International Scientific Research Centre in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent. The 23,000 sq m development will…

Morphosis’ Asian art museum opens at University of Texas’ Dallas campus

The Crow Museum of Asian Art, designed for the University of Texas by American architect Morphosis, has opened in Dallas. The museum will exhibit art from countries such as China,…

SOM designs 17 residential builds to surround New Jersey performing arts center

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has been chosen to design 17 residential buildings for the New Jersey Performing Arts Centre (NJPAC), which the practice designed in the late nineties. The…

Snøhetta’s bold addition to Omaha’s Joslyn museum opens next month

The Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska reopens next month with the new, 42,000-sq-ft addition – the Rhonda & Howard Hawks Pavilion – designed by Norwegian architect Snøhetta with local…

Bjarke Ingels-designed art village tops out in China

Construction on the Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art, designed by ARTS Group, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and Front Inc. has topped out in Jiangsu province, close to Shanghai. The 60,000-sq-m…

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