Rio de Janeiro is celebrating the opening of the Museu do Amanhã (The Museum of Tomorrow) this week. The museum, built on the Pier Mauá, features a cantilevering roof that stretches 75 m over the 7,600 sqm of museum's plaza and 45 m towards the sea…
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Museu do Amanhã by Santiago Calatrava. Photograph @ Bernard Miranda Lessa
The team, made up of the Barcelona-based practice MX_SI and SPRB, a practice from Guadalajara (Mexico), was unanimously awarded first prize from the 171 proposals submitted. With the slogan “Let’s Make City”, the winning team’s project opens up the…
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Rendering. MX_SI and SPRB winners for competition for Papalote Museo del Niño in Mexico
The Rotterdam based, Shift Architecture Urbanism, has completed "Museumplein Limburg," a group of three complimentary museums: Continium, Cube and Columbus, combining technology, science and design in one museum district., full_html
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Museumplein Limburg by Shift architecture urbanism. Photograph © Rene de Wit, Henny van Belkom, Kenneth Tan
The extension of the Museum Folkwang designed by David Chipperfield opened in 2010, after two years of works, on the space previously occupied by the north wing of the museum. The new design retains its autonomy and offers a variety of exhibition…
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One of the courtyards of the Museum Folkwang designed by David Chipperfield Architects. Photograph © Christian Richters
Paulo Mendes da Rocha, MMBB Arquitetos and Bak Gordon Arquitectos introduce us the new Museu dos Coches in Lisbon, Portugal, in the historic district of Belém, which follows two of its basics principle, Museology and Urbanism and promotes the…
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Inside view. Museu dos coches by Paulo Mendes da Rocha + MMBB Arquitetos + Bak Gordon Arquitectos. Photograph  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
On 9 January 2015, the State of Vaud invited candidates to take part in an architecture competition in connection with the second phase of the Pôle muséal. 149 architectural practices expressed an interest in designing the future setting of mudac…
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One museum, two museums, three spaces, by Aires Mateus architects
With an air reminiscent of a proposal by Kenzo Kuma, at least in these first images, and after beating out KPMB Architects, SANAA, Tod Williams Billie Tsien and DS+R to win the project back in April of 2014, Herzog & de Meuron have now released…
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The Conceptual Design of the new Vancouver Art Gallery by Herzog & de Meuron. Image courtesy of the Vancouver Art Gallery
In this video, the architect Elizabeth Diller from the practice Diller Scofidio + Renfro, talks about their project for the The Broad Contemporary Art Museum, recently opened to the public. She makes an interesting reflection on the interior light…
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The Broad by Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Video screenshot "The Broad Contemporary Art Museum. Interview with Architect Elizabeth Diller" by Vernissage TV
The Museum for Architectural Drawing of Berlin was built to house the collection of Sergey Tchoban, with the goal of popularize and defend the importance of drawing in architecture.

The museum includes works by Giacomo Quarenghi as well…
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Exterior view. Tchoban foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing by SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov. Photography ©RolandHalbe
Could be funded half of a project by OMA by a single painting? Well, apparently yes, according with the donation from philanthropist Audrey Irmas, a painting by Cy Twombly, that will be enough to cover half of the expansion of the Wilshire Boulevard…
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Cy Twombly's "Untitled, 1968 (New York City)". © Cy Twombly