Herzog & de Meuron unveils revised design for Museum of the 20th Century in Berlin
Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron has released renders of its updated plans for the Museum of the 20th Century in Berlin. More
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Álvaro Siza clads International Design Museum of China in red sandstone
Blocks of red sandstone cover the volumes of a new design museum designed by Álvaro Siza and Carlos Castanheira on the Chinese Academy of Art campus in Hangzhou, eastern China. More
Fashion For Good museum in Amsterdam promotes responsible fashion
Fashion For Good is an interactive museum that aims to teach visitors about innovations in the fashion and textiles industry, designed by US-based studio Local Projects. More
David Kohn designs V&A Photography Centre to hold museum's delicate collection
David Kohn Architects has refurbished a series of galleries in London's V&A to create a new photography centre that houses the museum's sensitive collection. More
Studio Mutt installs four architectural characters inside London's Soane Museum
There are four colourful new sculptures inside Sir John Soane's Museum in London, designed by architecture office Studio Mutt to represent a lawyer, an architect, a monk and a magician. More
The Met's Breuer building to host Frick Collection during renovation
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art intends to vacate its Marcel Breuer-designed building, giving the Frick Collection a home during its controversial overhaul, and revive its plans for David Chipperfield's extension to its Fifth Avenue location. More
Thomas Phifer expands Glenstone Museum with minimalist galleries The Pavilions
Concrete boxes housing galleries are laid out around a tranquil pond at this extended museum in Maryland, which architecture firm Thomas Phifer and Partners embedded in the rolling landscape. More
Kengo Kuma's V&A Dundee photographed at sunrise and sundown by Ste Murray
This slideshow of photographs offers a detailed look around the Kengo Kuma-designed V&A Dundee, Scotland's first design museum, which opens this week. More
Kengo Kuma unveils cliff-like V&A Dundee museum
The first images of the completed V&A Dundee, designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, have been revealed ahead of the museum's opening this weekend. More
"With Amos Rex, Helsinki shows you don't need to import a brand to get cultural prestige"
Helsinki's new art museum Amos Rex proves that importing an international brand, like the Guggenheim, isn't the only way to create a blockbuster tourist attraction, argues Dezeen deputy editor Tom Ravenscroft. More
Paris' first digital museum of fine art finds home in 19th-century foundry
Colourful projections of early 20th-century paintings, including those by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, are displayed at the Atelier des Lumière – a digital museum dedicated to fine art in Paris. More
Amos Rex's bulging underground galleries create playful landscape in Helsinki plaza
JKMM Architects designed a series of domed subterranean galleries for the soon-to-open Amos Rex museum in Helsinki, which bubble up through the ground to create a playful outdoor landscape. More
Red box houses galleries at Andrade Morettin's IMS Paulista in São Paulo
São Paulo firm Andrade Morettin Arquitetos has encased exhibition spaces at this cultural centre in the city in a huge red wooden box, which can be glimpsed through the building's translucent glass walls. More
"Venturi Scott Brown's MCASD addition should be saved because it is by Venturi Scott Brown"
Despite changing needs and tastes, Venturi Scott Brown's threatened extension to the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego warrants preservation simply because their names are attached to it, says Mimi Zeiger. More
Architects petition to save Venturi Scott Brown's San Diego art museum
Over 70 architects, critics and preservationists have signed a petition to prevent the "tremendous mistake" of demolishing parts of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown's Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, to make way for an expansion by Selldorf Architects. More
Fuses Viader Arquitectes converts abandoned hilltop fortress into museum and hotel
Fuses Viader Arquitectes has transformed a 19th-century fortress near the Spanish city of Girona into a museum and hotel complex featuring concrete, glass and weathered-steel. More
Wooden "treasure chest" wraps Tel Aviv's new museum of natural history
A bulging, elevated timber structure wraps the exhibition spaces of the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History in Tel Aviv, completed by Israeli studio Kimmel Eshkolot Architects. More
Studio Libeskind's Museum of Zhang ZhiDong references Wuhan's industrial past
Daniel Libeskind's studio has completed its first project in China – a museum in Wuhan featuring an arcing steel-clad volume elevated above a new public plaza. More
Eero Saarinen's Gateway Arch museum undergoes revitalisation in St Louis
A subterranean museum below architect Eero Saarinen's iconic arch in St Louis has been renovated and expanded by three architecture firms, as part of an effort to rejuvenate the area around the monument. More
Tod Williams Billie Tsien's Hood Museum overhaul will "knit together" its postmodern predecessor
Tod Williams and Billie Tsien's major extension and renovation of postmodern architect Charles Moore's Hood Museum of Art, in New Hampshire, will involve slotting in a pale brick building and covering a central courtyard. More