News Signature architects vie for Missouri art museum extension Six finalists – a veritable who’s who of architects – have been shortlisted for a $160m extension to Kansas City, Missouri’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The 61,000-sq-ft expansion will add…
News OMA to expand Manhattan’s New Museum The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has been selected to design a 60,000 sq ft extension to a contemporary art gallery in Manhattan. The New Museum was designed by Japanese…
News Frida Escobedo design chosen for new Metropolitan Museum of Art wing A 1.2ha extension of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has been designed by Mexican architect Frida Escobedo to house part of the museum’s 20th and 21st-century collection. The wing…
News ZHA to design 12-million-volt Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade The team of Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) and Serbian firm Bureau Cube Partners of Serbia has won an anonymous design competition for the new Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade. Working…
News OMA redesigns Turin’s Egyptian museum as journey into the light A team made up of Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and Italian practice Andrea Tabocchini Architecture has redesigned a gallery in Turin’s Egyptian Museum. The new “Gallery of…
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 Snøhetta reveals its design for the Omaha Children’s Museum Norwegian architect Snøhetta has unveiled its design for a children’s museum, to be located in Omaha, Nebraska, on the banks of the Missouri. The four-storey Omaha Children’s Museum and public…
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 Bjarke Ingels Group to turn Danish Aldi into Museum for Paper Art Danish architect Bjarke Ingels Group is to redevelop an Aldi supermarket as the Museum for Paper Art. The store, in the north of the Jutland peninsula, will be expanding from…
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 Serbia orders ‘Djokovic Museum’ after long-sought gold medal Serbia’s president Aleksandar Vucic has announced plans to build a museum dedicated to tennis champion and fellow Serb, Novak Djokovic, following his gold medal win this week at the 2024…
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 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 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 Finland’s oldest city to get museum for 800th birthday Finnish firm Sigge Architects has won a design competition for the “Museum of History and the Future” in Finland’s oldest city, Turku, to celebrate its 800th birthday. Its “Squāma” proposal…
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 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…