Cultural - Architecture

May 5, 2017

Five of Mexico’s best new museum buildings

Museo Internacional del Barroco by Toyo Ito & Associates

Mexico and the US celebrate Cinco de Mayo today, commemorating the Mexican Army's victory over the French in 1862. To mark the occasion, we've pulled together five of the country's best contemporary museum buildings, including projects by Toyo Ito and David Chipperfield. Read more

May 5, 2017

Peter Zumthor unveils extension plans for Renzo Piano’s Fondation Beyeler in Basel

Atelier Peter Zumthor's extension for Fondation Beyeler

Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has revealed designs for a trio of new buildings at the Renzo Piano-designed Fondation Beyeler art gallery in Riehen, Basel. Read more

May 3, 2017

Gimeno + Guitart creates chevron-patterned concrete for church of Santa Maria Assumpta

Iglesia Bonavista en Tarragona by Gimeno Guitart

Architecture studio Gimeno + Guitart has completed a church and parish centre in Tarragona, Spain, featuring concrete walls patterned with angular etchings. Read more

May 3, 2017

Obama Presidential Library concept design unveiled in Chicago

The first images and models of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects' plans for the Obama Presidential Library in Chicago have been revealed. Read more

May 3, 2017

Neri&Hu’s Suzhou Chapel combines textured brick base with ethereal white cube

Perforated metal surfaces form a white "veil" around the main hall of this chapel designed by Neri&Hu for a hotel complex near the Chinese city of Suzhou. Read more

May 1, 2017

Zooco Estudio uses granite to unify disparate blocks of Gallician arts centre

Spanish Zooco Estudio has completed a complex of granite-clad buildings in the city of Verín that come together to form an arts centre for the Galician region. Read more

April 30, 2017

“Feather-like” screens front church in Taiwan by MAYU Architects

Tainan Tung-Men Holiness Church by MAYU architects+

Rows of perforated aluminium shades intended to represent the feathers of an eagle shield the facade of this concrete and glass church in the Taiwanese city of Tainan. Read more

April 28, 2017

IM Pei’s Grande Louvre receives AIA 25-year award

The American Institute of Architects has honoured IM Pei's renovation of the Musée du Louvre in Paris with an award during the organisation's national convention, the same week that the Chinese-American architect is celebrating his 100th birthday. Read more

April 24, 2017

Jamie Fobert’s cliffside extension to Tate St Ives nears completion

Work is almost complete on a sunken extension to the Tate's seaside art gallery in St Ives, Cornwall, which is set to open to the public later this year. Read more

April 24, 2017

BBGK Architekci uses stained concrete walls to create Katyn Museum inside Warsaw barbican

Red concrete walls frame a chasm leading to a memorial inside Warsaw's barbican that commemorates the thousands of Polish citizens murdered by the Soviet secret police during the second world war. Read more

April 20, 2017

Mountain landscapes inform peaked roof of NBBJ’s Nanjing exhibition centre

Nanjing EcoTech Island Exhibition Center

Skylights top eight angular peaks on the roof of this exhibition centre in the Chinese city of Nanjing by architecture firm NBBJ, funnelling natural light down into the interior. Read more

April 20, 2017

Kengo Kuma unveils stacked-timber box design for Turkish art museum

Kengo Kuma & Associates has revealed plans to create a modern art museum in a former wood market in Turkey, which will be made up of cluster of slatted-timber blocks. Read more

April 18, 2017

Neo Bankside residents take Tate Modern to court over Herzog & de Meuron extension

Residents of Rogers Stirk Harbour's Neo Bankside apartments are taking legal action against Tate Modern to force the gallery to close part of the viewing platform of its recent Herzog & de Meuron-designed extension. Read more

April 18, 2017

Neo Bankside residents take Tate Modern to court over Herzog & de Meuron extension

April 15, 2017

Henry Moore Foundation celebrates 40th anniversary with renovation of the artist’s former home

Hugh Broughton Architects has added a new visitors centre and an oxidised-steel extension to the Henry Moore Studios and Garden in Hertfordshire – the site of the artist's former home. Read more

April 12, 2017

Buro Koray Duman adds barn-like gallery to artist’s residence in Upstate New York

Prince Artist Foundation expansion by Buro Koray Duman

New York firm Buro Koray Duman has taken cues from vernacular agricultural structures for the first-phase expansion of an artist's foundation. Read more

April 11, 2017

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners to design British Library extension

British firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has been appointed to design a new research centre for the British Library in London. Read more

April 11, 2017

Sledding path to loop around roof garden of Beijing civic centre by Andrew Bromberg

An undulating path will curve around the roof garden of this Beijing shopping centre by American architect Andrew Bromberg, and be covered in a layer of fake snow for sledding in winter. Read more

April 10, 2017

Bahá’í temple in Chile by Hariri Pontarini features torqued wings made of steel and glass

Sufi whirling dancers and Japanese bamboo baskets were among the references for this sculptural temple in Chile by Hariri Pontarini Architects. Read more

April 10, 2017

Peter Zumthor ditches the black for his LACMA expansion plans

Peter Zumthor has released new images of his proposals for Los Angeles County Museum of Art revealing that, in contrast to his early designs, the Swiss architect has opted for light tones for the building's exterior. Read more