Museum
Westside - by Libeskind
The Westside shopping and leisure complex in the outskirts of Bern is Libeskind’s first finished building in Europe, purely dedicated to a commercial program. The architecture and design of the building has strong similarities to Libeskind’s museum projects like the Jewish Museum Berlin or the Felix Nussbaum Museum in Osnabrück.Westside offers a book shop devoted […]
Gardiner Museum Renewal - KPMB Architects
The Gardiner Museum is one of the world’s pre-eminent institutions devoted to ceramic art, and the only museum of its kind in Canada. It is also one of the major projects in Toronto’s cultural renaissance. Framed between the neoclassical Lillian Massey building to the north and the Queen Anne-style Margaret Addison Hall to the south, […]
Architecture in shadows
The Kimbell Art Museum unveiled Renzo Piano’s design for its new building opposite Louis I. Kahn’s 1972 landmark. While the site plan and section don’t reveal a heck of a lot about the design, it made me wonder why Piano is chosen not only for every other museum design (it seems) but for additions to […]
The first new art museum in the Downtown Manhattan
The New museum of contemporary art in an old industrial Downtown Manhattan, NY, has been building since last fall according to plans of Tokyo based architects Sejima+Nishizawa/Sanaa. Minimalistic, neutral 7-storeys container is contradistinguished from neighbourhood, however concept of division and stacking issues to little lofts, aborigine incident at that place. The building contains […]
4th museum by Herzog & de Meuron in the United States
Parrish art museum in Soupthampton, New York, presented changed plans for their New Building by Swiss based architects Herzog&deMeuron. Museum asked architects to reduce the building, in an effort to reduce price tag and acres of a building´s size. Although smaller in its realization, the architects’ basic design concept remains unchanged. The building will be […]
Multifuncional indoor space integrate classical urbanisme of Berlin
New building called The James Simon Gallery designed by David Chipperfield is orientating to elements of classical styles with his conception. The building create by architect as a main gate to an island of old museum in Berlin, Germany, it is a demonstration of a conceptual work generating since 1998. Object will be entrance […]
Chocolate museum
Fairly deconstructivistic uplifted red noodle hide Nestle museum of chocolate in Mexico City, designed by mexican team Rojkind Arquitectos. The author deal with studies of childrens behaviour, childrens as a main visitants, from which interiors disposition arised with huge entrance lobby, that invite people to come in. The shape of the building could remain origami […]
Norwegian sensitivity
Architectural team Snøhetta build in Norway a Museum of poet Pettr Dass. Authors decided to intervene to nature with sensitivity, so they made a cut in the natural landscape where they put an object of museum. They create not only a new and interesting views and pathways closer to a sea, but they didn´t change […]
Zaha Hadid and conception of Glasgow Museum of Transport
Project for a New Glasgow Museum of Transport, Scotland, by Zaha Hadid was selected from 44 others architects and designers and the museum will be open to the public by 2009. The building is concipate as a tunnel-like shed, which is open at opposite ends, where the building diverts to create a journey away […]
The Glass Pavilion - at the Toledo Museum of Art, Construction Slide Shows
Construction begins with the digging of the hole for the foundation. As the digging progresses through the week, a steady stream of dump trucks carries the dirt off the building site. Some of the subsoil is being temporarily held on Museum property at the intersection of Interstate 75 and Monroe Street. When the construction of […]
