Museum
Museum architecture gives culture a physical home, and this category collects the buildings doing it most memorably. Explore galleries, cultural centers, and landmark museums where light, sequence, and form shape the visitor experience. With photos, drawings, and critique, these features unpack what makes museum design so influential.
Foster + Partners Completes Agravitas, a 55 Metre Bridge Gallery Above the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum
Agravitas, a 55 metre steel gallery by Foster + Partners and Luis María Uriarte, sits on V-shaped columns above the museum's 1945 and...
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Johnston Marklee Lifts the Bass Museum Expansion Above a Shaded Courtyard in Miami Beach
Johnston Marklee has released designs for The Bass in Miami Beach: two white gallery pavilions raised on a concrete plane, with a lit...
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Espace Riopelle by FABG Opens at Québec’s MNBAQ With a Circular Gallery for a 40-Metre Triptych
The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec has opened the Espace Riopelle, a three-storey pavilion by Les architectes FABG on the Plains of...
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Allentown Art Museum Leaves Its Venturi, Scott Brown Addition for a New Studios Architecture Building
The Allentown Art Museum is moving to a new Studios Architecture building at Tenth and Hamilton Streets, leaving the future of its 2012...
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Wisdome Stockholm by Elding Oscarson
Elding Oscarson extends the Swedish Museum of Technology in Stockholm with Wisdome, a free-form LVL gridshell that spans 26 by 48 metres over...
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Zumthor’s Three New Buildings Open at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen
Peter Zumthor's Wyss Museum, Ammann Pavilion and Erlen Torhaus open at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, nearly doubling the museum's park.
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Frida Escobedo Studio to Design MALBA Underground Wing in Buenos Aires
MALBA has tapped Frida Escobedo Studio to build a subterranean expansion beneath Plaza Perú, doubling its exhibition space by 2029 or 2030.
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George Lucas’s Narrative Art Museum Set to Open in LA in 2026
George Lucas's museum of narrative art, designed by Ma Yansong, opens in Los Angeles on September 22, 2026.
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