Art museum

The speed at which buildings become obsolete is now surpassing the speed at which cities can renew them. Adaptive Reuse is no longer simply about preserving the past. The next challenge for contemporary urban development lies in confronting buildings that were completed only a few years ago, yet have already become inadequate for new social and cultural needs. REDGE Contemporary Art Center is a public adaptive reuse project designed by Atelier Meadow in Chengdu, transforming the first three floors of an existing office building into a contemporary art center open to the community. Commissioned by Chengdu Tianfu International Bio-town, the project forms part of a broader urban strategy aimed at introducing public life, cultural activities... More

The Aurora Cultural Centre revitalizes Aurora’s historic core by transforming the nationally significant 1885 Church Street School into a vibrant cultural hub. As part of the Town’s Cultural Precinct and Town Square initiative, the project pairs a 32,000 sq. ft. addition with selective renovation, uniting heritage preservation and contemporary cultural infrastructure into a cohesive civic campus. A core ambition was to honour the Schoolhouse’s legacy while enabling modern programming. The addition is distinct yet respectful, its compact footprint preserving the historic structure’s prominence and establishing a clear dialogue between old and new. A diaphanous veil consolidates the massing across significant terrain... More

Nube 7 café has been operating since 2008 within the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, a cultural and artistic space in Mexico City designed by the renowned architect Teodoro González de León. During the museum’s 15th anniversary,  there was an intention to renovate some of its facilities, the restaurant was among those. After analyzing the requirements, a project was developed that offered a fresh, contemporary, and renewed image, while also addressing operational challenges and taking advantage of opportunities for functional improvement. This renovation work completely transformed the operational and kitchen areas, in contrast with the subtle and precise changes made in the public spaces.... More

SOLO CSV transforms a former industrial building into a centre for experimentation, debate, and the celebration of art in unexpected formats and contents. Inside, a public circulation spine of shifting scale—part corridor, part lively urban street—connects, crosses, and reveals a diverse and often indeterminate programme distributed over 4,000 square metres across two floors. This loop, with its ambiguous interior–exterior character, expands and contracts to create spaces for rest, encounter, and contemplation. It is punctuated by service lifts and staircases, most notably two key vertical connections—one in timber and the other in stone-like terrazzo—that link both levels at strategic points where their layout... More

This community art museum is a transformative renovation based on an unfinished project, originally consisting of a completed underground parking garage and a planned three-story above-ground structure. To meet the museum’s functional requirements, part of the underground space was converted into exhibition halls and seamlessly connected to the levels above. This project represents an "inside-out" creation: the evolution of internal needs reshaped the original structure and facade, allowing it to metamorphose into an entirely new entity while strictly adhering to the planning prototype of "a cube truncated by a right cylinder" and the constraints of the existing subterranean structure. ©TAOA ©TAOA Facing a river a... More

Solum is a framework for creating holistic micro-communities. It is a flexible and adaptable planning model that bridges between suburban and urban environments. It focuses on mixed-use courtyard clusters that prioritize the pedestrian to promote walkability, social connectivity, and authentic patterns of living. Black Rabbit Black Rabbit Caption   More

Located on part of Level B1 of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA), the Taiwan Children’s Art Cave is a concrete commission responding to Taiwan’s cultural policy. Conceived as “an art-education space open to children across Taiwan,” it aims to nurture children’s agency while establishing a partnership relationship with adults as a guiding design principle. It also leverages the national museum’s collection and exhibition resources as a key opportunity for integration. Yuchen Chao Photography The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts is in the center of Taichung and functions as an urban museum. At the city scale, its significance lies in connecting a network of open spaces across the Tai... More

The current classic building of the Reina Sofía Museum is, due to successive historical vicissitudes, a rigid structure that turns its back to the Paseo del Prado and does not offer the urban and functional appeal expected from a contemporary art museum. To transform that severe character and bring the Institution closer to a future improvement and extension of the Paseo del Prado ―which should include a renovated Atocha Station, as well as more green and pedestrian areas―, the Museum resolved in 2022 a competition of which COLL-BARREU ARQUITECTOS was the winner. From the beginning, the proposal was intended to be an intervention without intervention. That is, an intervention without the addition of any new piece, without the const... More

The project concerns the new set up of the panels of the Frieze of the Art of War in the Ducal Palace in Urbino, a masterpiece of Renaissance architecture. The 72 bas-reliefs - sculpted by Ambrogio Barocci, partly from drawings by Francesco di Giorgio Martini and partly from drawings by Roberto Valturio - depict machines, technological devices and instruments of war, and are a synthesis of Federico da Montefeltro's talent and interest in mathematics, exact sciences and technology. Claudio Ripalti Claudio Ripalti The panels, originally placed on “the winged façade” and along the façade of San Domenico, decorated the benches where visitors and residents of Urbino still sit today. In 1756, to limit their de... More

The exhibition aims to highlight the museum's less visible heritage in order to offer unprecedented historical-critical readings of it: these are works of art that are rarely exhibited, but which are inventoried, catalogued and available to scholars. Claudio Ripalti Claudio Ripalti In the exhibition design, the works are not always arranged chronologically, as they are normally found in a depository, and most often they are arranged thematically, aesthetically and according to size. Claudio Ripalti Claudio Ripalti The exhibition design is intended to evoke the atmosphere of the repositories, stimulating a reflection on the immense hidden heritage of Italian museums and its incredible potential. Claudio Ripalti... More

In the historic town of Tammisaari on the southern coast of Finland, a new contemporary art house by the sea has made a smart addition to Tammisaari’s cultural scene. Designed by JKMM Architects, a Helsinki-based architecture and design studio, the three-storey timber-clad Chappe Art House pays homage to traditional Finnish wooden architecture while presenting a modern architectural form. The design of Chappe Art House reflects JKMM’s holistic approach to sustainability, rooted in material responsibility, energy efficiency, and sensitivity to place. Tuomas Uusheimo Caption   A modern cultural hub in Tammisaari’s museum quarter Founded in 1546, Tammisaari is known for its well-preserved timber architecture... More

Ara Güler Museum, on the land of Güler Apartment, is a new architectural fiction and Bomonti building roof is designed for archives, research, information and exhibitions.The design of the Ara Güler Museum is considered as a whole in which the exhibition spaces are intertwined. Caption The artist’s “study room, dark room, relaxation room” and “Kafe Ara”, where he spent his daily life for the last twenty years, are kept in the same positions.Ara Güler Museum is designed as a museum that explores the “character of human – city life”, “the light that opens the light to the darkness”, and exhibits its life and life.The museum will provide visual perception to... More

Creating a vibrant space for social interaction, education, and appreciation for the arts, Studio Gang’s design for the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts transforms this premier cultural institution into a signature civic asset. Iwan Baan Working from the inside out, the design—which includes both new construction and renovations—clarifies the organization of the building’s interior while also extending AMFA’s presence into historic MacArthur Park, opening the museum to the city of Little Rock and beckoning the public within. Iwan Baan AMFA’s eight architectural additions have resulted in a motley collection of fortress-like spaces that lack a holistic architectural identity, clear visitor circulat... More

Centro Cultural Hartii, designed by Taller Mexicano de Arquitectura TAMA, represents a thoughtful renovation of a residence situated in one of Mérida’s most historic neighborhoods. Established in the early 1970s as one of the city’s first residential areas, this building—once a home and studio—has been transformed into an art gallery and cultural center. Manolo R. Solis The renovation aimed not only to preserve the original structure but to accentuate its essence through a dynamic interplay of vertical and horizontal volumes, level changes, and a nuanced play of solids and voids. Manolo R. Solis Contemporary materials, such as facade panels, concrete plaster, and flooring, were introduced to align... More