News Pop-up stadium for 80,000 to go up for Adele fans in Munich A temporary stadium for 80,000 people will be built in Munich for 10 concerts by British singer Adele next month, the StadiumDB website reports. She is performing the concerts throughout…
News OMA-designed bridge with built-in cultural space opens in Bordeaux The Simone-Veil Bridge, a 549m-long structure designed by Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has opened to the public. The structure spans the Garonne between the Bordeaux municipalities of…
News Caruso St John to renovate Philip Johnson’s German art gallery UK architects Caruso St John have won a competition for the renovation of Germany’s Kunsthalle Bielefeld, the only European museum designed by modernist architect Philip Johnson, completed in 1968. Work…
News South Korean art centre will mimic the wave of a conductor’s baton A team made up of Denmark’s 3XN and two South Korean designers, Siaplan and MDA, has won a competition for the Chungnam Art Centre in Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea. The curved…
News Paris’ Pompidou Centre to be given a €186m facelift The Pompidou Centre in central Paris is due to close for five years from the summer of 2025 while renovation works take place. These will include upgrades to the 1977…
News David Kohn Architects to expand Belgium contemporary art museum UK studio David Kohn Architects, Belgium’s noAarchitecten and Turkey’s Asli Çiçek have won an international design competition for a €90m renovation for the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent,…
News OMA-designed art space opens in former Detroit warehouse The mixed-use Lantern space, designed by Rotterdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has opened to the public in Detroit’s east village. The 22,300 sq ft structure was built in the…
News Six teams shortlisted for Antwerp’s museum of contemporary art Six international design teams have been made it to the final stage of a competition to design an extension to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp. About 50 practices…
News Henning Larsen designs waterside opera house for Jeddah Ground has been broken on the Jeddah Opera House, designed by Danish architect Henning Larsen for a site on the shores of the Red Sea. As well as the 1,500-seat…
News Renzo Piano selected to design Florida arts centre Renzo Piano Building Workshop has been chosen to design the three-storey Centre for Arts & Innovation in Boca Raton, southeast Florida. The centre’s main hall will be used for events,…
News Comprehensive music museum coming to New Orleans Architecture firm EskewDumezRipple has produced a concept design for the planned Louisiana Music and Heritage Experience Museum in New Orleans. The 120,000-sq-ft The Louisiana Music and Heritage Experience will be…
News Henning Larsen wins competition for Norwegian music hall Danish architecture practise Henning Larsen has won a design competition for a 17,500-sq-m music and conference hall in Bergen, Norway. It will work with Rambøll Norge as project consultant. Henning…
News Marina Bay Sands to build fourth tower and ‘Asia’s leading live venue’ Singapore’s iconic Marina Bay Sands is seeking planning permission to build a fourth tower and a 15,000-seat entertainment arena. The company has been planning the expansion since 2019, but the…
News Diller Scofidio + Renfro unveils extension to The Broad art museum in Los Angeles New York architect Diller Scofidio + Renfro has revealed its expansion of The Broad contemporary art museum in downtown Los Angeles, which it designed in 2015. The plan includes a…
News World’s biggest collection of Scandinavian art to open in grain silo The southern Norwegian coastal town of Kristiansand is about to open a gallery in a converted grain silo. Kunstsilo Nordica, designed by Barcelona firms Mestres Wåge Arquitectes, Mendoza Partida and…
Projects Bobcat helps commemorate Bronze Age grave find Heavy equipment-maker Bobcat notes the use of one of its machines on a striking, archeology-themed art project in Czechia. Local artists recreated a Bronze Age grave in the village of…
News Haworth Tompkins and ARCO win Finnish theatre expansion UK architect Haworth Tompkins and Finnish studio ARCO have won a competition to rebuild a theatre in the town of Kouvola in southeastern Finland. The plan is to retain the…
News Chinese wave: MAD unveils watery design for Guangdong cultural complex Beijing-based architect MAD has unveiled its design for the Nanhai Arts Centre in the City of Foshan in the greater Guangdong area of southeast China. The 120,000-sq-m complex will include…