News US team leads Louvre renovation An American team of Selldorf Architects and the French arm of Studios Architecture has won the Louvre Nouvelle Renaissance design competition for renovating the world’s most visited museum. The scope…
News Foster + Partners design Alpine wooden gallery and auction house Planning permission has been granted for the Gstaad House in Switzerland, an auction house and gallery designed by UK architect Foster + Partners. The circular timber building’s form is inspired…
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…
News Dallas Museum of Art announces winner for extension A team led by Spanish designer Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos has won a competition to modernise and extend the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), beating a shortlist that included David Chipperfield…
News Extended gallery dedicated to Italian art and design to open in New York state An extension of Magazzino Italian Art, a gallery in Cold Springs, New York, designed by Spanish architects Alberto Campo Baeza and Miguel Quismondo will open to the public in September.…
News North American design team unveil their expansion plan for the Art Gallery of Ontario The design for an expansion of Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) has been unveiled by a Canadian and US design team made up of Diamond Schmitt, Selldorf Architects and…
News Bengaluru’s “water tank” art gallery is about to open to the public Mathew & Ghosh Architects’ water-tank themed Museum of Art & Photography (MAP) is due to open in Bengaluru on 18 February. The museum is wrapped in a steel façade and…
News OMA-designed extension of Buffalo art museum to open next year The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has announced that its renovation and expansion of New York’s Buffalo AKG Art Museum will open to the public on 25 May. The $230m…
News SANAA’s expansion of New South Wales art gallery to open next week A US$231m extension of the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, designed by Pritzker-Prize-winning firm SANAA, is to open to the public on 3 December. The project includes…
News Adjaye Associates and MVRDV among contenders for Portland Museum of Art expansion Four teams have been shortlisted to design the extension and renovation of the Portland Museum of Art (PMA) in the New England state Maine. The teams vying for the contract…
News Selldorf and SOM to modernise Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum Selldorf Architects and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) have been chosen to create a modernisation plan for the Hirshhorn contemporary art museum in Washington, DC. The duo will expand its…