A New Building Opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Designed by Steven Holl Architects, the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building completes a decade-long campus redevelopment project.
Cultural Architecture
A Floating Church in East London Prepares to Set Sail
Designed by Denizen Works, Genesis is intended to connect to a new generation of Londoners.
In Rotterdam, MVRDV Recasts the Archive as Museum
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen will put 151,000 works—its entire collection—on public display in a new salad bowl–like structure.
From the British Melting Pot, "New London Fabulous" Emerges
The slew of recent projects emphasize color’s capacity to bring joy to the public sphere. Just don’t call it a movement.
David Adjaye Wins RIBA's 2021 Royal Gold Medal
The British-Ghanian architect is well known for projects around the world including the National Museum of African American History in Washington, D.C.
Targeting the Spectacle and Attention Economy at Area15
The attraction-filled art complex debuts in Las Vegas today, and with a keen eye for combining the over-the-top and the everyday, it fits right into recent changes in the cultural economy.
A New Exhibition Highlights Modernism's Debt to Japanese Architecture
Shofuso and Modernism: Mid-Century Collaboration Between Japan and Philadelphia explores the artistic interconnections between Antonin and Noémi Raymond, George Nakashima, and Junzo Yoshimura.
A New School Building in Stuttgart Completes the City's Renowned Ballet Scene
Munich firm Burger Rudacs designed the two faces of the new John Cranko School to interface with the city in contrasting ways.
With Interactive Concepts and Unfussy Materials, Hou de Sousa Knows "What the Public Wants"
New York designers Nancy Hou and Josh de Sousa create public art installations driven by practicability, adaptability, and a keen awareness of what delights.
Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet Unwinds Timeless Treasures
ATELIER BRÜCKNER has crafted an exacting and celestial exhibition space for the legacy watch brand.
At Oslo’s Deichman Library, the Journey Through Is Half the Fun
Delayed by more than a year and a half due to foundation challenges and COVID-19, Oslo’s new waterfront library opens its doors.
Lighting Adds to the Graphic Quality of New York's Poster House
At the city's newest museum—next in our series on lighting schemes around the world—LTL Architects and Lumen Architecture use LEDs to heighten the atmosphere of a sensitive adaptive reuse project.
Out of a Former Cheese Factory, The Momentary Fuels a Modernist Turn in Bentonville
Crystal Bridges’ new contemporary art space, courtesy of Chicago firm Wheeler Kearns, is the latest example of Northwest Arkansas’ cultural renaissance.
Glenn Howells Architects Designs a New Facility for the English National Ballet
Located in East London, the new building is a pearl in City Island, a site ensnared by old and new infrastructure.
For the New Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, Light is a Recurring Motif
Designed by Rand Elliott Architects, Oklahoma's newest cultural landmark opens on March 12.
As Gottfried Böhm Turns 100, an Exhibition Foregrounds His Concrete Religious Architecture
Kicking off the nationwide celebrations, Böhm100 in Frankfurt presents the Pritzker Prize–winner's 1968 Neviges Cathedral in western Germany.
Hopkins Architects’ Geology Park Outside Sharjah Finds Inspiration in the Region’s Archeology
Composed of five variously sized pods, the steel and concrete structure is a dramatic medley of function and aesthetic, inspired by the region’s sea urchin fossils.
The Melbourne Conservatorium of Music Strives For Openness
Designed by John Wardle Architects, the new home of Australia's oldest music school breaks way from the monastic model of the conservatory.
With the Opening of the West Bund Museum, Reflecting on Shanghai’s Cultural Mega-Developments
The Chipperfield-designed, Pompidou-affiliated arts space fits into a unique but precarious spatial and development context, our correspondent writes.
CetraRuddy Restores Church Missions House for Fotografiska Museum in New York
The local firm, which has worked on several reuse projects, converted the 1890s-era building into a photography gallery.
