News ZHA-designed art centre is inaugurated in Guangdong Zaha Hadid Architects’ 100,000 sq m art centre has been completed in Guangdong’s Aviation New City in southeast China. The Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Arts Centre includes a 1,200-seat theatre, a…
News Studio Gang designs Shakespearian theatre for New York’s Hudson Valley American architect Studio Gang has revealed its design for a theatre campus in the town of Garrison, in New York State. The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival project is anchored by…
News Performing arts facility opens at NY World Trade Centre site The Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) has opened, the final public segment of the rebuilt World Trade Center site following the 9/11 attacks. The 138ft-tall, cube shaped PAC NYC…
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 Giant sundial to produce solar power for Houston Houston, Texas will get a 100ft-tall sundial that generates solar power next year. The Arco del Tiempo (Arch of Time), set for Houston’s East End neighbourhood, was designed by Italian…
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 Kengo Kuma, Henning Larsen, Zaha Hadid and more vie for Norwegian music hall Five architecture teams have been selected from 32 entries to reach the final stage of a competition to design a music theatre in Bergen, southwest Norway. Located in Grieg Hall,…
News Renzo Piano wins design competition for Florida performing arts centre Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) has won a design competition for the “once-in-a-generation” Sarasota Performing Arts Centre in southwest Florida. RPBW beat Foster + Partners and Snøhetta in the final…
News Henning Larsen team aims to make Canberra the arts capital of Australia Plans have been unveiled for a renovation of the Canberra Theatre Centre (CTC) by Danish architect Henning Larsen, UK consulting engineer Arup and Australia’s Architectus. The original 1965 building will…
News 115-year-old power plant reopens as artist space in New York Herzog and de Meuron’s power station redevelopment has opened in Brooklyn, New York. The 461 Powerhouse Arts facility is now a 170,000 sq ft collection of workshop space for artists…
News Bjarke Ingels team to design $500m Tennessee Performing Arts Centre A team made up of Danish architect Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), Boston’s William Rawn Associates and Nashville-based EOA Architects has won a contract to design a new home for the…
News Renzo Piano’s Istanbul gallery refurbishment opens to public A renovation of the Istanbul Modern, Turkey’s first museum of modern and contemporary art, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, has opened to the public. The five-level, 10,500 sq m…
Innovation AI designs statue with styles of Michelangelo and Rodin Swedish engineering group Sandvik has unveiled a statue designed by artificial intelligence (AI) to incorporate styles of five famous sculptors no longer living, including Michelangelo. The stainless steel Impossible Statue,…
News David Chipperfield, Diller Scofidio + Renfro among contenders for Dallas Museum of Art Six teams have been shortlisted from 154 entries to a competition to design the modernisation and expansion of the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA). The six teams in the running…
News Pompidou Centre plans museums in Saudi Arabia and South Korea Paris’ Pompidou Centre for modern and contemporary art has announced plans to open branches in Saudi Arabia and South Korea. In Saudi Arabia, the centre has signed an agreement to…
News MAD Architects designs dance studio in former Rotterdam warehouse China’s MAD Architects has unveiled its plan to transform a former warehouse on the waterfront of Rotterdam’s Maas river into a space for the Netherlands’ Droom en Daad dance foundation.…
News Lever Architecture wins Portland Museum of Art expansion The Portland Museum of Art (PMA) in New England has announced that American designer Lever Architecture has won a competition for a $100m campus expansion and unification project. The PMA…
News 18 starchitects to compete for “once in a generation” Florida arts centre An 18-strong shortlist has been announced for the design of the Sarasota Performing Arts Centre in Florida. The companies selected include Adjaye Associates, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Foster + Partners,…