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May 18, 2017 · In honor of International Museum Day, we’ve selected 23 stand-out museums from our database, with each ArchDaily editor explaining what makes these buildings some of the best examples of...
- Miho Museum / I.M. Pei | ArchDaily
Completed in 1997 in Koka, Japan. Images by Miho Museum. The...
- The Architecture of Museums: The Evolution of Curatorial Spaces
Across the globe, museums function as cultural landmarks –...
- Miho Museum / I.M. Pei | ArchDaily
- Azerbaijan Carpet Museum. The Azerbaijan Carpet Museum in Baku had been housed in a 15th-century mosque and a monolith since its founding in the 1960s before it got a so-bad-it’s-great building shaped like—wait for it—a partially unrolled carpet in 2014.
- Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at University of California, Davis. This sun-filled museum was designed by the up-and-coming New York firm SO-IL, spearheaded by Dutch architect and Harvard professor Florian Idenburg and also responsible for the newly opened Amant Foundation in Brooklyn.
- Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art. Thomas Heatherwick’s tendency toward monumentality has occasionally been his undoing—look no further for proof than New York’s Vessel, which has been viewed as an eyesore and a potential danger to public health.
- 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. This campus, which opened in 2004 in the Japanese city of Kanazawa, on the western coast of Honshu, is designed by the Pritzker Prize–winning firm SANAA (Sejima and Nishikawa Architects and Associates).
May 29, 2024 · Stories about museum architecture and design from around the world, including new museum buildings, refurbishments and interiors by leading architects. Magazine Awards
May 18, 2023 · Ten museums from across the globe, including a zigzagging museum in Berlin and a tree-canopy-like museum in Budapest, are among the buildings in this roundup to mark International Museum...
Feb 23, 2017 · From historic palaces in Russia to modern marvels in Mexico City, the world’s museums are shining examples of how architecture can enhance (or even rival) the art.
Nov 14, 2018 · Here, we present the amazing architecture of seven famous museums: the Louvre, the Guggenheim, Tate Modern, Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, the Denver Art Museum, the Pompidou, and the Guggenheim Bilbao. Each example showcases the world's best museum architecture.
