News 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…
News 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…
News 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,…
News 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…
News 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…
News 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…
News Acciona wins roles on New York museums for hip hop and immigration Spanish contractor Acciona has won contracts for New York’s new Hip Hop Museum in the Bronx and the renovation of the Museum of Immigration on Ellis Island. At the Hip…
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…