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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. Translated with DeepL.com (free version) 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

NewsNews • 2 Jan 2025

The D-Day Museum by Projectiles is a building rooted in the Normandy coastline

The D-Day Museum in Arromanches-les-Bains, France, recently unveiled a new facility designed by Paris-based design studio Projectiles. The redevelopment project marks a significant milestone for the first museum dedicated to the Normandy landings. The museum's new design establishes a strong connection to its surrounding environment. Located on a natural wedge in Normandy, the site offers sweeping views of the English Channel and the remnants of the temporary Mulberry harbor constructed during World War II by the British. Projectiles conceived the building as a 'landscape museum,' embedding it into a broader museum system extending along the cliffs and across the horizon. Its positioning and design emphasize the interplay between the natur... More

Project • By Nissen Richards StudioExhibitions

'China's hidden century' at the British Museum

The resilience and innovation of 19th-century China is the subject of a major new exhibition at the British Museum, designed by the exhibition and graphic design team at Nissen Richards Studio. ‘China’s hidden century’ focuses on the tumultuous period between 1796 and 1912, which led to the end of over 2,000 years of Qing dynastic rule and paved the way for the modern Chinese republic. The exhibition reveals a period of turmoil, but also of great innovation and creativity, driven by political, cultural and technological change. In the shadow of these events lie the stories of remarkable individuals – at court, in the military, in booming cosmopolitan cities and on the global stage – through which the period is... More

Project • By Robbrecht en Daem architectenPavilions

Het Huis

On top of a polished concrete base raised slightly off the ground, a light, gleaming, green-painted steel construction unfolds to form a shelter to protect delicate works of art. The diagonal lines of passage through this new pavilion interweave Middelheim Park with the Hortifloria Garden, a recent extension of this well-known Antwerp sculpture park. Filip Dujardin Four vertical recesses provide the entrances to the pavilion, divide the space into four and allow in natural light. The difference in the height of the walls gives rise to a complex composite roof surface which, with its boxed ceiling, unifies the internal spatiality. Filip Dujardin Robbrecht en Daem architecten More

Project • By Robbrecht en Daem architectenArt Galleries

Whitechapel Gallery

In the best museums and galleries one finds one's way through a series of rooms, where the artefacts are carefully lit and set off by calm backgrounds. A degree of repetition helps navigation, some variation helps orientation. Filip Dujardin The proposals for the Whitechapel Art Gallery are bold in their restraint (someone commented: 'where’s the architecture?') and seize a simple but powerful opportunity: lower and upper floors are configured as circuits of rooms, with the stylistically different but volumetrically similar existing galleries linked up by smaller, more domestically scaled gallery spaces. The subtle rhythms and contrasts of the rooms form the backdrop to the wide variety of work on display (historic and contempor... More

NewsNews • 24 Apr 2023

Five visions for new US Navy Museum unveiled

Conceptual renderings from 5 architectural firms for a new National Museum of the United States Navy (NMUSN) campus have been unveiled. Responding to an artistic competition from the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) seeking concepts and ideas for the planned project, the 5 shortlisted firms (from a total of 37 submissions) are: Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), DLR Group, Frank Gehry Partners, Perkins&Will, and Quinn Evans. The finalists’ designs are inspired by the Navy’s core values and attributes: strength, commitment, integrity, courage, honor, and initiative. DoD photo illustration by: Bjarke Ingels Group / Rendering by Negativ Located in Washington DC, the future state-of-the-art museum is envisioned by the... More

NewsNews • 24 Apr 2023

Miguel Marcelino reimagines a humble rural abode as a contemporary museum space

In Cascais, Portugal, Lisbon-based studio Miguel Marcelino Arquitecto transforms a humble rural house of Casal Salolio in Outeiro de Polima, one of the oldest standing houses in the area, into a modern museum space. © Archive Miguel Marcelino (photo by Lourenço T. Abreu) The former house underwent a series of successive transformations and expansions, resulting in a complex layer of architecture and history. The architects acknowledged the significance of the building's history and development over time and decided to reinstate the rural character of the house along with its architectural layers in their last recognizable form while introducing contemporary interventions. © Archive Miguel Marcelino (photo by... More

NewsNews • 20 Apr 2023

Paleis Het Loo – underground extension by KAAN Architects fitted into baroque landscape

Under the forecourt of Paleis Het Loo, a 5,000-square-meter expansion designed by KAAN Architects has been completed in recent years. This underground extension provides space for a new entrance area and new halls for temporary exhibitions. At the same time, the old palace has been restored, and firmer interventions have been made here and there. Caption The seventeenth-century palace is actually only a small part of a much larger, baroque landscape design, explains architect Dikkie Scipio of KAAN Architects. The visible part of that landscape consists of three monumental avenues leading up to the palace, a formal entrance plaza at the front, a formal ornamental garden at the rear, and then several ponds and meadows amid a large for... More

NewsNews • 27 Mar 2023

SO-IL gives cultural ensemble space in old glass factory

In the village of Meisenthal, located in the French Vosges Mountains, architectural firm SO-IL has given a new home to a number of cultural initiatives in an old glass factory. The three institutions - a museum, workshops for glassblowers and a multipurpose hall - have each been given more and better space. SO-IL also added an undulating, in-situ poured concrete surface that connects the various existing buildings and provides space for additional functions. © Iwan Baan The northern Vosges region used to be an important site of the glass industry. Heritage of this industry can still be found in several places, such as the village of Meisenthal. Here the historic glass factory, founded in 1704 and closed in 1969, was now in use... More

Project • By Piotr Krajewski - Architectural PhotographyMuseums

The Józef Piłsudski Museum

Photo shoot of the Józef Piłsudski Museum in Sulejówek.The authors of the museum project are architects from the PIG Architekci, Radosław Kacprzak and Krzysztof Jaraczewski Piotr Krajewski - www.pkrajewski.pl Piotr Krajewski - www.pkrajewski.pl Piotr Krajewski - www.pkrajewski.pl Piotr Krajewski - www.pkrajewski.pl Piotr Krajewski - www.pkrajewski.pl   More

NewsSpecification • 15 Mar 2023

10 remarkable museum buildings with distinctive façade systems

The design of museums goes beyond its function of housing artefacts and exhibits; their architecture embodies the essence of a place, its culture, and its identity. In museum architecture, the façade system is one of the most significant features of the building. It can provide a visual representation of the museum's goals, convey the history of the place, narrate a unique story, or make a bold statement.   Additionally, it also contributes to the building's functionality and sustainability. For instance, some museum buildings use innovative façade systems to control the amount of natural light, thereby reducing the need for artificial lighting and lowering energy consumption. While some help in protecting the collectio... More

NewsNews • 22 Feb 2023

David Chipperfield Architects wins National Archaeological Museum Athens competition

The competition for the renovation and expansion of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens has been won by David Chipperfield Architects Berlin. The winning plan envisions a semi-underground extension toward the street, providing a large square footage and park environment and better connecting the museum to the city. Copyright Filippo Bolognese Images The International Evaluation Committee unanimously selected David Chipperfield Architects Berlin's proposal from the shortlist of ten plans, the architecture firm says. David Chipperfield Architects Berlin will renovate and expand the museum so that it meets contemporary requirements and desires for accessibility and sustainability, with the architectural firm seeking to build o... More