Contemporary Art Galleries : Key Buildings
Major Arts projects from around the World. Modern property designs pictures and news updates.
post updated 6 October 2026
This page contains a selection of major art gallery designs from around the globe, with links to individual project pages. e-architect select the key Art Gallery Buildings around the world, but additions are always welcome. We focus on contemporary Art Gallery buildings but major traditional Art Galleries are also covered.
Art Gallery Buildings : more recent galleries architecture designs (this page)
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Art Gallery Building Designs
Art Gallery Architecture News, chronological:
15 Jan 2024
Design Space AlUla, Alula, Saudi Arabia
Design: Giò Forma Studio
photo : RCU / Nicholas Jackson Photography
Design Space AlUla
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Art Gallery buildings photos in 2023
29 September 2023
New Scottish galleries at the National, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Design: Hoskins Architects
photo : dapple photography
New Scottish galleries at the National, Edinburgh
The National Galleries of Scotland is delighted to announce that the stunning new Scottish galleries at the National.
19 Sep 2023
Roca Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
Architects: Fernanda Marques
photo : Ruy Teixeira
Roca Gallery São Paulo, Brazil building
Roca expands its international network with the opening of the first Roca Gallery in Latin America located in São Paulo. Fernanda Marques’ elegant design of the Roca São Paulo Gallery is poised to emerge as a prominent landmark on the São Paulo design scene, promising to foster conversations with professionals and society about architecture, design, innovation and sustainability.
8 September 2023
Transformation of The Courtauld, London, England, UK
Renewal Design: Witherford Watson Mann Architects
photo © Hufton+Crow
The Courtauld Institute of Art London Renewal
The transformation of The Courtauld Institute of Art in London is one of six projects which have been shortlisted for the 2023 RIBA Stirling Prize, the UK’s highest accolade in architecture. The prize is awarded to the best architectural project of the last 12 months. Designed by award-winning architects Witherford Watson Mann with exhibition design by Nissen Richards Studio, The Courtauld’s redevelopment has revitalised and opened up the magnificent building conceived by Sir William Chambers in the late 1770s to create an inspiring setting for the 21st century.
26 June 2023
National Portrait Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, southeast England, UK
Design: Jamie Fobert Architects
photo © Olivier Hess
National Portrait Gallery on Trafalgar Square
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Contemporary Arts design interiors in 2022
11 Oct 2022
Sheep Field Barn Gallery, Perry Green, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, southeast England, UK
Design: DSDHA
images courtesy of architects practice
Sheep Field Barn Gallery Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
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New galleries architect news in 2016
12 Jan 2016
St Albans Museum and Gallery Building, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Design: John McAslan + Partners, Architects
picture from architects studio
St Albans Museum and Gallery Building
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Art Gallery Buildings 2012 – 2013
Art Gallery Architecture Designs in 2012 and 2013, chronological:
25 Jul 2013
Buk Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Design: SAMOO Architects & Engineers
photo : Young Chae Park
Buk Seoul Museum of Art
Like a serene white mass integrated into the hill this new building revitalizes the region which is mostly composed of monotonous high-rises apartments and provides a nature-friendly cultural space in which the green flow of the park integrates with the art museum to become a single entity.
19 Jul 2013
Koç Contemporary – New Contemporary Art Museum Istanbul, Turkey
Design: Grimshaw
image from architect
Koç Contemporary
This new project has been conceived to fulfil the Foundation’s vision of showcasing the growing Koç collection to the broadest possible audience and to place these works in a national, regional and international context of contemporary artists. The Museum is due to be open to the public in 2016. Grimshaw’s winning proposal was selected from a long-list of 20 world-renowned entries.
18 Jul 2013
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Pennsylvania, USA
Design: Susan T. Rodriguez of Ennead Architects
image from architects
Westmoreland Museum of American Art
Groundbreaking news for the renovation and expansion of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, located in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, designed by Susan T. Rodriguez of Ennead Architects. The design creates a new face and identity for the original neo-Georgian building, which enhances the Museum’s link to the City. The L-shaped massing of the expanded building features a new south-facing façade that visually frames the original brick building and forms a linear porch along its length.
12 Jul 2013
Pingtan Art Museum, China
Design: MAD architects
image from architect
Pingtan Art Museum
This curvilinear building merges with the landscape. It is located on the largest island in the Fujian province, close to Taiwan.
11 Jul 2013
Luan Gallery, Athlone, Republic of Ireland
Design: Keith Williams Architects
photo from architect
Luan Gallery
This new building has received the architectural award for the Best Cultural Building of 2013 under the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland’s annual awards programme. The Town Clerk of Athlone Town Council stated “the Luan gallery is located in a superb setting in the centre of Athlone and targets national and international projects to bring a varied and engaging arts programme to the people of Athlone. The town council is delighted that the gallery has been awarded the best cultural building of 2013 and congratulate Keith Williams Architects on their design”.
6 Jul 2013
Saint Louis Art Museum, USA
Design: David Chipperfield Architects
image courtesy of the Saint Louis Art Museum
Saint Louis Art Museum
More photos of the new East Building added
28 May 2013
Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria
Design: SpaceLab – Peter Cook + Colin Fourier, with Architektur Consult
photo : Maleen Diestel
Kunsthaus Graz
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20 Jul 2012
Vanke Triple V Gallery, Tianjin, China
Architect: Ministry of Design
Tianjin Gallery Building
Designed as a permanent show gallery and tourist information center for China’s largest developer Vanke, MOD’s dramatic design for the TRIPLE V GALLERY has become an icon along the Dong Jiang Bay coastline. “Despite its obvious sculptural qualities, the building’s DNA evolved rationally from a careful analysis of key contextual & programmatic perimeters”.
3 Feb 2012
KPF London Gallery, London, England, UK
Design: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates – KPF
KPF London Gallery
This gallery space is run by architecture studio Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates.
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12 Oct 2011
White Cube Gallery, London, England, UK
Design: Casper Mueller Kneer
This is the third major space in London for this client. The former waehouse building from the 1970s is located in southeast London.
21 Apr 2011
Jamia Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
Design: Romi Khosla Design Studios
Jamia Art Gallery
6 Jan 2011
Gallery Borzo, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Design: Wiel Arets Architects
Gallery Borzo
At the beginning of the 20th century the structure was revised to accommodate a large warehouse. The shop was then taken over by F.J. Dupont. In 1932 Alexander Bodon redesigned the building as a bookshop.
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