Laboratorio Regional de Arquitectura Taller | Mauricio Rocha Samuele Xompero    Mexico   La Cacaotera Regional Museum is located in Villahermosa, in the state of Tabasco, Mexico’s leading producer of cocoa. Its purpose is to promote learning about cocoa and to disseminate cocoa culture, highlighting its historical, productive, and cultur

Yalin Architectural Design   Turkey   The Liberation Museum of Manila (in Turkish Manisa Kurtuluş Müzesi) commemorates the popular movement of resistance to the occupation of the region from 1918 to 1923, operating independently of central authority. Located in the Yunusemre district of

Kengo Kuma   France   The Japanese firm of Kengo Kuma has been selected to enlarge and relocate the French manufacturer Michelin’s museum in Clermont-Ferrand. L’Aventure Michelin, which opened in 2009, will be transferring to a former tire-production site of the company,

Cayuelas Arquitectos Desarrollo Urbano   Spain   This project, undertaken on a reduced budget, aims to upgrade the Pilar Factory in Motril as an industrial museum of sugar. The intervention is being executed in different phases, understood as steps in a process of long duration, in such a way that

Snøhetta BIAD   China   Snøhetta, in collaboration with the Beijing Institute of Architectural Design (BIAD), has won the international competition for the new Beijing Art Museu in Tongzhou District, in the southeast part of the Chinese capital. It will be the Norwegian fir

Lina Ghotmeh   Qatar   Mathaf, the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, is carrying out an ambitious expansion of its premises. Directed by the architect Lina Ghotmeh, the project marks a significant shift in the institution’s identity, moving it away from exclusive focus on

SANAA   Taiwan   The Green Museumbrary in Taichung, Taiwan’s second largest city, has officially opened. Designed by the Japanese firm SANAA – Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa – in collaboration with the local firm Ricky Liu & associates, it puts two traditionall

Foster + Partners   United Arab Emirates   The Zayed National Museum has opened its doors in Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Cultural District as a tribute to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (1918-2004). Created to trace the history and showcase the culture of the United Arab Emirates, it extols the l

Mecanoo   United Arab Emirates   The Natural History Museum in Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Cultural District is now open. Designed by Mecanoo, the Dutch firm led by Francine Houben, the building takes up over 35,000 square meters with its architecture of concrete inspired by the region’s r

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   When Clotilde García del Castillo decided to open up what had been her home to preserve the memory of her husband, little could she have imagined that a century later it would be crowded with people eager to see where Joaquín Sorolla had lived and wo

Foster + Partners   United Arab Emirates   Abu Dhabi is centralizing its architectural icons in the heart of Saadiyat Cultural District, where the new museum by Foster+Partners goes up. Not far from the Louvre Abu Dhabi and the upcoming Guggenheim, Zayed National Museum traces the identity of

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   China   On the shores of Jinji Lake, the Museum of Contemporary Art is a new architectural and cultural landmark in Suzhou. Covering an area of 60,000 square meters, the complex consists of intertwined pavilions and courtyards, in a reinterpretation of the l

Snøhetta   China   Snøhetta's proposal has won the competition to build an art museum on the banks of the Qiantang River in the Xiaoshan district of Hangzhou. Covering 18,000 m², this building is the centrepiece of an ambitious urban development project. The design is

Adjaye Associates   United States   The new Princeton University Art Museum has opened its doors in the heart of the New Jersey campus. The building, which doubles the size of the original museum, is organised around nine interconnected pavilions, totalling 13,565 square metres spread

Spain   On the ledge of Es Jonquet ravine, bordering the Bay of Palma, stands a chain of old flour mills. At the end of this group, the project converts the old Molí d’en Garleta into a museum that explains both the building’s unique history and the Balearic

Heneghan Peng Architects   Egypt   After more than three decades of waiting and numerous postponements, 1 November 2025 sees the long-awaited official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM). The full opening of this colossal complex, located just two kilometres from the Pyramids o

Kéré Architecture   Germany   Construction has officially begun on the Ehrhardt Museum, a space dedicated to photography and contemporary art in Plüschow, near the Baltic Sea. Covering an area of 1,400 square metres, the project has been spearheaded by Dr Jens Ehrhardt, son of ar

Jean Nouvel   France   On 25 October 2025, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain begins a new chapter with the public opening of its new location at 2 Place du Palais-Royal, in the heart of Paris, across the Musée du Louvre. The inside of the historic Haussmann-sty

Carmody Groarke   United Kingdom   The London practice of Kevin Carmody and Andy Groarke has finished renovating Power Hall, the largest room within the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester. This building of great heritage value was a warehouse in the times of the Industrial Revo

Tuñón y Albornoz Arquitectos   Spain   Titlted ‘Memory Box,’ Tuñön y Albornoz’s proposal has landed first prize in the competition to turn the building located at Calle Argumoso 41 in Madrid, close to the Reina Sofía Museum, into the Exhibition Center for Democratic Memory, a space devote

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   In the heart of Philadelphia, a new cultural space devoted to the sculptor Alexander Calder – born in the Pennsylanian city – opened on 21 September. Far from being a conventional museum, it provides an encounter with his work through an interplay of

Studio Anne Holtrop   United Arab Emirates   Within the landscape of King Salman Park in the capital, the complex – which includes four museums, a large trade-fair building, and connections with the ring of the park – takes inspiration from the legacy of Najdi architecture and extends into the

Studio Anne Holtrop   Bahrain   The architectural heritage of the pearling trade is the last testimony of a culture that defined the country’s identity. Amongst the iconic structures along the Pearling Path, a World Heritage Site, is the Siyadi cluster where Tajir Al-Lulu received

The Grand Egyptian Museum

The early museums, as we know these places to be today, were in homes: the residences of kings, noblemen, cardinals, and bourgeois citizens who, impelled by an at once didactic and acquisitive restiveness, liked to flaunt treasures that helped them u

Incapaz de competir en tamaño o peso político con Taipéi, la ciudad de Taichung se ha afanado durante varias décadas por convertirse en la capital cultural de Taiwán, y hoy puede presumir de varios museos nacionales y de un teatro de la ópera diseñad

The Helsinki firm JKMM Architects has been named the winner of the international competition to design Finland’s new Museum of Architecture and Design, to go up at the old docksite of the Nordic capital’s South Harbor. The scheme ‘Kumma’ was selected

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Museums are not dead, they multiply. After their central role in the economic euphoria of the 1990s, the Great Recession of 2008 and the pandemic of 2020, along with different military and environmental crises, should have transformed the cultural an

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Two iconic museums in New York and London opened anew in May. The Frick Collection returned to its original home on Fifth Avenue, after expansion works that lasted five years, carried out by Anabelle Selldorf, and the same architect remodeled the Sai

With the same ascetism of many of his other art centers, Tadao Ando in 2013 built the Museum SAN (Space Art Nature) in the mountains of the South Korean city of Wonju. In celebration of its tenth anniversary he added a meditation pavilion, and now he

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Two publishers of the Penguin Group and another of the Planeta – the latter with two titles – compete in bringing art closer to the general public. For this they use different literary tools and take distinct approaches, but all four books reviewed h

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The art market is a good example of the conspicuous consumption theorized by Thorstein Veblen in The Theory of the Leisure Class, and two recent texts by outsiders document the extremes of ostentation, fraud, and opacity reached in our time. Orlando

The British Museum has announced which teams will be competing in the next stage of the international competition to renovate its Western Range galleries, an ambitious project of reimagining over a third of the London institution’s gallery space. The

There are buildings that are works of eloquent architecture, but in the extension of the National Gallery, the walls have spoken. Literally. Turning its back on Trafalgar Squqre, what we know as the Sainsbury Wing – because of the generous donation r

The Spreeinsel, or 'Spree Island', became the representative seat of power of the German Empire on its southern side, and throughout the 19th century its northern end was transformed into a privileged cultural site: the Altes Museum by Karl Friedrich

Roy Nachum (1979, Jerusalem) works across disciplines and is known especially for paintings that go from surrealism to hyperrealism. Nachum rose to fame with the cover design for Rihanna’s Anti album of 2016, a work that included a fragment in Braill

Architecture has had so many ties to the hard power of politics and religion that we can easily forget how it has also always, from the very beginning, served the soft power of science. Weren’t the Babylon ziggurats towers from which to observe the s

The German National Theater, the residences of the likes of Goethe, Schiller, Nietzsche, or Liszt, the Bauhaus Museum... Classical Weimar boasts a wealth of places to visit that tell of the city’s rich history, for not in vain is it on the UNESCO Wor

The Guardian   Jon Henley   For Unesco (United National Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) Francis Kéré has designed an immersive virtual museum of cultural objects stolen from museums, collections, and archaeological sites worldwide. The project aims to raise

Like a jewelry box, a treasure chest, or a Wunderkammer, the Royal Collections Gallery opened its doors in the city of Madrid last 28 June to showcase its extraordinary architecture, in addition to its no less extraordinary collection of objects whic

Ptolemy, the Greek pharaoh of Egypt, ordered the building of the Mouseion of Alexandria in the year 280 BC, and in doing this, what he was inventing was not so much a place where erudites could come to study under the sponsorship of the State, but ra

The names of the finalists in the international competition to revitalize the Dallas Museum of Art have been unveiled. The six teams are: Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos (Madrid); David Chipperfield Architects (London); Diller Scofidio + Renfro (New York)

Palace matters take time. That is why two decades – practically the same as Philip II with his Escorial – have been necessary to complete the great center called to collect the treasures of the Spanish crown. The project was already considered during

Manuel Blanco   The new museum, one of the largest cultural complexes built in decades, showcases its collections along the two main levels, each devoted to one of the reigning dynasties. 

Emilio Tuñón   A linear volume is attached to the slope that historically marked the border of the city, establishing with its rigorous granite facade a formal and material dialogue with the Royal Palace. 

Pedro Moleón   The physical and symbolic magnitude of the work by Mansilla+Tuñón brings to life a long-held yearning of showing an art collection treasured for centuries by the kings of Spain. 

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