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Project • By Fausto FerraraMuseums

Museo della Luce

The Museum of Light is a Spatial Work by Fausto Ferrara conceived in Pucón, Chile. The project does not treat light as a subject to be represented or as a scenographic effect. Light becomes a constructive material of architecture: it participates in the generation of form and makes perceptible the relationship between body, space, matter and time. Water, sky and landscape are not a background to the building. They enter into the construction of the Work through reflections, openings, thresholds and variations of light, continuously transforming the perception of space. Architecture does not simply separate interior and exterior; it establishes a condition in which the boundary itself becomes a place of relation. Matter acquires pr... More

Project • By Perkins EastmanMuseums

Wuxi Yangshan Peach Museum

Located in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China, the Wuxi Peach Museum researches and celebrates nearly 6,000 years of the cultural and techno-agricultural influence of peach cultivation in the region in an intentionally unconventional museum design – equal parts earthwork, landscape design, and architecture. The museum is a new landmark surrounded by farmland and open views to the mountains, rooted in both its agrarian context and positioned as a cultural beacon for the region. Copyright Perkins Eastman Copyright Perkins Eastman Copyright Perkins Eastman The design concept for the museum and its surrounding site is “Harvest.” Envisioned as a living landscape and a working museum where cultivation is both practiced and cel... More

Project • By Nissen Richards StudioExhibition Centres

Childhood in War

Imperial War Museum has opened its leading exhibition for summer 2026 at IWM London. Childhood in War focuses on the impact of war on children and is additionally notable for being the first ever UK exhibition to look specifically at how war affects and shapes younger lives. The exhibition and graphic design for the exhibition are by architects and exhibition designers Nissen Richards Studio, a London-based practice with a global portfolio and over fifty creative awards to their name, including three RIBA National Awards. IWM and Nissen Richards Studio have collaborated on six previous projects for both IWM London and IWM North. Childhood in War, which runs until 28 February 2027, is located on the Museum’s third floor in the larger... More

Project • By Peter Pichler ArchitectureCultural Centres

Prosperity Well Museum

The project is conceived as a layered cultural landscape that connects architecture, memory, and territory while preserving the site’s geological and historical identity. At its core, a subterranean museum route links Ithra with key landmarks, including historic wells, the Sweet Gas Plant, and the Italian Wall, forming a continuous spatial and narrative sequence beneath the ground. Peter Pichler Architecture The underground path is accompanied by a 1.4-kilometre light installation inspired by early geological explorations. Above ground, the surrounding Jebels are integrated into the project through a network of hiking trails, viewpoints, and former water tanks reprogrammed as exhibition and gathering spaces, extending the experi... More
The MET (Metropolitan Museum New York)
The MET (Metropolitan Museum New York)
The MET (Metropolitan Museum New York)
The MET (Metropolitan Museum New York)
The MET (Metropolitan Museum New York)

Project • By Basaltite®Museums

The MET (Metropolitan Museum New York)

The Museum's collection of Greek and Roman art comprises more than thirty thousand works ranging in date from the Neolithic period (ca. 4500 BCE) to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity in 312 CE. It includes the art of many cultures and is among the most comprehensive in North America. Basaltite® solid stone pedestals give huge prestige to works of art. Caption Caption Caption Caption Caption Caption Caption Caption Caption   More

Project • By KO-archCultural Centres

Gallery Bir Zamanlar

The permanent exhibition and archive space within Gallery Bir Zamanlar was designed to accommodate long-term display and storage of printed materials, documents, and three-dimensional objects.Drawer units integrated along the exhibition walls house the permanent archive, while the central display elements can be retracted to allow the space to function as a seminar and lecture area. Evren Öztürk This balance between fixed exhibition infrastructure and flexible use scenarios defines the space as both an archive and an active platform for knowledge exchange. The temporary exhibition space within Gallery Bir Zamanlar was designed to accommodate printed materials and documents at different scales.The space is organized through... More

Project • By WORS architectsMuseums

Shelter on the ruins

‘Shelter on the ruins’ by ‘WORS architects’ is a conceptual project of museum the ‘Nossa-Senhora-da-Luz’ Fortress. It is located in Peniche, Portugal among powerful natural landscapes. Built in the XVII century, the fortress was an important strategic point along the coastal defense system of the peninsula. The ruins of the fortress, destroyed by the wind and the ocean, emerge from the landscape with steep cliffs that break into the ocean. The architectural invention urges to emphasize and celebrate this remarkable site, it provides a unique and memorable experience for each visitor. WORS architects The borderline location of the ruins of the fortress at the junction of the rich natural landscape,... More

Project • By panos nikolaidis designMuseums

Prismatic Landscapes by Panos Nikolaidis

Set within the Ionian landscape, the project proposes a museum and guest houses for visiting researchers, where Italian architectural influences are reinterpreted through angular, prismatic forms embedded in the terrain.This proposal envisions a museum complex with guest accommodation for researchers on one of the Ionian Islands, drawing from the region’s layered cultural heritage and its historical ties to Italy. Rather than replicating traditional forms, the project abstracts key references from Italian vernacular architecture—solid volumes, pitched roofs, and rhythmic massing—into a contemporary language of angular, prismatic geometries. Panos Nikolaidis Panos Nikolaidis The buildings are conceived as a const... More

Project • By DLR GroupOffices

Baoshan Long Beach Complex

The Shanghai Baoshan Long Beach Winder Tower Complex is strategically located at the Yangtze River estuary beside the Wusongkou International Cruise Terminal—Asia’s largest and the world’s fourth-largest home port. DLR Group won an international design competition with a vision to transform the industrial port into a new waterfront landmark. The complex brings together a 180-meter observation tower, a 120-meter Grade-A office building, an 80-meter five-star hotel with 300 keys, a 1,027-seat concert hall, a tunnel operations center, and retail.  Chill Shine  The design embraces the cultural imagination of Journey to the West. Inspired by the “Tidal Control Staff”—the legendary weapon of the... More

Project • By KO-archMuseums

Go-Go Museum

GO-GO MUSICGo-Go was born in the liberatory atmosphere of 1968, within Washington D.C.’s Black neighborhoods. For decades it remained a cornerstone of the city’s African American social and cultural life, supported by clubs, concerts, and independent businesses that built an ecosystem around the music. The genre’s pioneer, Chuck Brown—known as The Godfather of Go-Go—defined its character in 1976 as a fusion of African and Latin percussion with funk, jazz, hip-hop, and R&B. Its most distinctive feature is the uninterrupted “beat” that flows without pause. Rather than breaking between songs, the rhythm—driven by drums, cowbells, and percussion—continues seamlessly. Altug Kozikoglu... More

Project • By DLR GroupMuseums

Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Situated within Cleveland’s cultural district, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History has been a vital resource for science education, research, conservation, and community engagement since 1920. A multiphase transformation led by DLR Group unified existing and new structures into one legible whole, and transformed the museum into an actively sustainable building that brings visitors closer to nature while addressing human impacts on the natural world. The project was LEEDv4 BD+C NC Platinum certified in 2025 – becoming the first museum in the United States to earn this designation. Kevin G. Reeves Kevin G. Reeves Kevin G. Reeves Creating a new, cohesive identity for the museum, the architectural concept for the... More

Project • By Phos Design GmbHMuseums

Türstopper im Deutschen Museum München

PHOS products were also used in the renovation of the most visited museum in Germany. Our door stoppers have once again been selected. RKW Architektur + is responsible for the renovation of this mammoth project on the Museum Island in Munich (costing 800 million euros). With its technical and scientific exhibits, it is the largest museum of its kind in the world and is visited by 1.5 million people every year. More

Project • By Migliore + ServettoExhibitions

Migliore+Servetto for Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan

The Milanese design studio Migliore+Servetto has conceived the Exhibition and Graphic Design project for the exhibition "The Seduction of Colour. Andrea Solario and the Renaissance between Italy and France", a retrospective curated by Lavinia Galli and Antonio Mazzotta. Nicola Colia In the spaces of the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan, 30 works from prestigious collections in Italy, France and the United Kingdom tell the story of the evolution of the artistic career of Andrea Solario, master of the Lombard Renaissance. Carried out on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of his death, the project is the result of a scientific collaboration with the Louvre Museum. Nicola Colia The installation design involves a light intervention w... More

Project • By COLL-BARREU ARQUITECTOSMuseums

Opening up a Museum

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

Project • By Tuncer Cakmakli ArchitectsMuseums

Ara Guler Museum

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