Shigeru Ban wins contest to design Tainan Museum of Fine Arts
News: Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has won a competition to create a museum of fine art and culture in Taiwan's oldest city. More
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Fumihiko Maki completes white granite museum for the Aga Khan Foundation
Angular walls clad with white granite and a glazed courtyard surrounded by Islamic motifs feature at Fumihiko Maki's Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, which opens later this week (+ slideshow). More
Zaha Hadid to create maths gallery at London's Science Museum
News: Zaha Hadid has won the commission for a new gallery dedicated to maths at the Science Museum in London, with a design that explores "the many influences of mathematics in our everyday lives". More
Musée du Léman unveils extension proposal featuring concrete walls and a rooftop lawn
News: Swiss office Fruehauf Henry & Viladoms has been selected ahead of Kengo Kuma, Bernard Tschumi and Studio Mumbai to envision a new wing for the Musée du Léman on the edge of Lake Geneva (+ slideshow). More
George Lucas hires MAD and Studio Gang for Chicago art museum
News: American film director George Lucas has appointed Beijing firm MAD and Chicago-based Studio Gang Architects to design his proposed art museum on Chicago's lakefront. More
Foster + Partners adds First World War galleries to London's Imperial War Museum
Foster + Partners has overhauled the interior of the Imperial War Museum in London, creating new First World War galleries and a grand atrium that suspends planes over the heads of visitors. More
Frank Gehry reveals "under the radar" refurb for Philadelphia Museum of Art
News: Frank Gehry has unveiled his masterplan to overhaul and expand the Philadelphia Museum of Art by adding underground galleries that won't disturb the architecture of the existing Beaux Arts building (+ slideshow). More
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners completes new conservation and gallery wing at British Museum
London firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has put the finishing touches to the World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre – a new £135 million wing at the British Museum in London (+ slideshow). More
Adam Richards Architects unites old and new at Ditchling art and craft museum
London practice Adam Richards Architects has refurbished a museum in the English village of Ditchling, adding pitched-roof structures to connect the buildings with a converted cart lodge containing a new entrance (+ slideshow). More
Fumihiko Maki designs China's "first major museum of design"
News: the V&A Museum will collaborate with developer China Merchants Group on content for the Shekou Museum in Shenzhen designed by Tokyo architect Fumihiko Maki. More
Bjarke Ingels unveils spiralling museum for Swiss watchmaker
News: Danish firm BIG has been commissioned to expand the headquarters of Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet by adding a spiralling museum that coils up from the landscape (+ slideshow). More
MVRDV converts a chapel into an entrance for the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
Dutch studio MVRDV has transformed a neoclassical chapel into the main entrance for a museum of modern art in Schiedam, the Netherlands, adding bright red shelves between the listed building's existing features (+ slideshow). More
Sofie Lachaert and Luc d'Hanis build temporary housing terrace for exhibition
Artist duo Sofie Lachaert and Luc d'Hanis have recreated a terrace of workers' cottages to house an exhibition of their work at Belgium's Grand-Hornu Images museum (+ slideshow). More
National September 11 Memorial Museum completed in New York
News: a Snøhetta-designed pavilion marks the entrance to the memorial museum at the World Trade Centre site in New York, which will be inaugurated by US president Barack Obama tomorrow (+ slideshow). More
Knot-shaped museum by Chae Pereira Architects honours Korean artist Chang Ucchin
Korean studio Chae Pereira Architects has completed a mountainside museum dedicated to Korean artist Chang Ucchin, with a knotted plan based on the abstract paintings that typify his work (+ slideshow). More
Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp modernises Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (FJMT), the architect behind the 2013 World Building of the Year, has overhauled the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery by transforming an old courtyard into a gallery and framing a new public square (+ slideshow). More
Sifang Art Museum "gives you a feeling of mystery" says Steven Holl
New York architect Steven Holl has released two movies about the Sifang Art Museum in Nanjing, China, a building designed to recreate the "parallel perspectives" that are characteristic of Chinese landscape paintings. More
Tapestry Museum by CVDB Arquitectos features marble walls and vaulted ceilings
Portuguese studio CVDB Arquitectos has created a tapestry museum with vaulted ceilings, marble walls and funnel-shaped skylights inside a twelfth-century hospital building (photos by Fernando Guerra + slideshow). More
Central America's largest museum of Mayan culture to be built in Guatemala
News: Swiss firm Harry Gugger Studio and Boston office over,under have teamed up to design Central America's largest museum of Mayan history and culture for a site in Guatemala City. More
JDS Architects designs fictional museum for Danish television drama
News: architect Julien de Smedt has designed a museum to feature at the centre of a plot line in popular Danish television series The Legacy. More