Powerhouse Parramatta, Sydney, New South Wales

Powerhouse Parramatta Sydney NSW Australia building news

Powerhouse Parramatta commission more than 50 leading designers from across Australia to shape the spaces and experiences of the new museum. It is the biggest cultural infrastructure project in Australia since the Sydney Opera House

Museum of Aboriginal Peoples Art and Artifacts, Alberta

Museum of Aboriginal Peoples Art and Artifacts Alberta Canada

The Museum of Aboriginal Peoples Art and Artifacts, Alberta, by SPECTACLE Bureau for Architecture and Urbanism Inc, elegantly responds to the verticality of the reconstituted Quaking Aspen forest. Vertical slats hinged at the top swing gently back and forth in the breeze

Guggenheim Abu Dhabi building, Saadiyat Island, UAE

Guggenheim Abu Dhabi building news

Guggenheim Abu Dhabi building, Saadiyat Island. Designed by the late Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate Frank Gehry, the museum is located at a meeting point between land and sea in UAE. A rooted architectural landmark that will offer a new perspective and invite visitors to be part of the curatorial journey of the museum.

Museo Nacional del Ecuador Quito building

Museo Nacional del Ecuador Quito building interior

A process report from the new Museo Nacional del Ecuador in Quito — implementing a design method that mainstream practice is not yet aware of, by Nikos A. Salingaros (San Antonio, Texas). The premise: AI resurrects neglected culture. Concept design still largely begins the way it did decades ago: a brief, a site analysis, a folder of reference images, and then form-making guided by intuition. Ecuador building news

Shenzhen Natural History Museum building news

Shenzhen Natural History Museum building

Shenzhen Natural History Museum building, China, design by 3XN-B+H Architects. It is one of the world’s largest new natural history museums and the largest in South China. A major new cultural landmark, a global centre for innovation and design

Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi UAE

Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi UAE

The concept for the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi is rooted in the meeting of water and earth, recognising this ever-changing boundary as a place of origin, movement and transformation. Rather than designing a singular architectural object, Mecanoo‘s design was conceived as a landscape shaped by natural forces

Museo Nacional del Ecuador building, Quito

Museo Nacional del Ecuador Quito building design

Quito, Ecuador, building design by EFE (Estudio Felipe Escudero) and OPEN Architecture with DLPS (De la Piedra Arquitectos). An international team unveils a building conceived to keep a plurinational country’s memory across every overturning of its world, by giving its ground away and leaving its centre unclaimed

National Museum of Qatar, Doha building

National Museum of Qatar Doha

Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Jean Nouvel, the National Museum of Qatar is renowned for its striking desert rose-inspired architecture and immersive visitor experience. The museum’s galleries combine cinematic projection, artefacts and exhibition design

David Chipperfield Architects: DCA Architecture

Waltherpark Bolzano, South Tyrol building by David Chipperfield architect

David Chipperfield Architects news. Major new building by this British architecture studio – Waltherpark Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy. Civic architect, urban planner and activist was the 2023 Laureate of The Pritzker Architecture Prize

Salvador Dali Museum Florida, USA

Salvador Dali Museum, St Petersburg, Florida building

The Dalí Museum design by HOK, Architects on a scenic waterfront site in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida. The 68,000-sqft building doubles the size of the original 1982 Dalí Museum, a one-story warehouse. Exhibits include oils, watercolors, sketches, sculptures and other works from a 2,140-piece permanent collection. The $30m building stands more than 75 feet tall and is adorned by 1,062 unique, triangular glass panels