JKMM Architects adds timber art hall to Tammisaari old town
Helsinki-based JKMM Architects used glulam and black spruce cladding to relate the Chappe Art House to surrounding timber structures in the coastal town of Tammisaari, Finland. More
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PAU to expand IM Pei's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with monumental wedge
New York-based studio Practice for Architecture and Urbanism has released designs for a wedge-shaped expansion of IM Pei's Rock and Rock Hall of Fame museum in Cleveland. More
Pink concrete forms "geometric and disciplined" wing of Polish Army Museum
Architecture studio WXCA has extended the Polish Army Museum in Warsaw, adding a low-lying wing with coloured-concrete walls that are imprinted with chevrons. More
Studio Besau-Marguerre designs colour-block foyer for Hamburg's MK&G museum
German practice Studio Besau-Marguerre has overhauled the entrance hall of Hamburg's MK&G design museum, using colours to guide visitors through the space. More
Tate Modern's Corner cafe revamped to be less "Herzog & de Meuron-y"
Architecture studio Holland Harvey has overhauled the ground-floor cafe at the Tate Modern in London so it doubles as the gallery's first late-night bar. More
Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos designs "floating" gallery for Dallas Art Museum
The Dallas Art Museum museum has selected Spanish architecture studio Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos to expand its downtown complex, citing its "poetic sensibility". More
Caples Jefferson Architects unveils curved Louis Armstrong Center in Queens
Local studio Caples Jefferson Architects has created an extension for the Louis Armstrong House Museum complete with a curved facade and a green roof in Corona, Queens. More
Crystalline volume added to Audubon Aquarium and Insectarium in New Orleans
New glazing and an angular lobby crossed by a catwalk are among the enhancements that US architecture studios Eskew Dumez Ripple and CambridgeSeven have made to a 1990s nature museum in Louisiana. More
Mexico City museum features "living facade" made of thousands of aluminium panels
Local architect Fernanda Ahumada and studio FR-EE have completed The National Biodiversity Pavilion in Mexico City with a facade of moving aluminium panels that responds to light and wind. More
Monolithic New York museum pavilion features "perfect cube" gallery
Spanish architects Alberto Campo Baeza and Miguel Quismondo have collaborated to create the Robert Olnick Pavilion for the Magazzino Italian Art museum in Cold Spring, New York. More
Johnston Marklee converts historic Los Angeles car showroom into art gallery
A vaulted ceiling punctured with skylights features in a 1940s auto dealership that architectural studio Johnston Marklee has converted into a bright home for the Roberts Projects art gallery. More
Young V&A designed as "national resource" for creative learning
Architecture studios De Matos Ryan and AOC have included a staircase informed by optical illusions and a bright red performance stage in the refurbished Young V&A children's museum in east London. More
Studio Other Spaces encloses Buffalo museum courtyard in "canopy of glass and mirrors"
Artist Olafur Eliasson and architect Sebastian Behmann's firm Studio Other Spaces has created a sculptural work called Common Sky to enclose an open-air courtyard at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. More
International African American Museum lifted above Charleston site "without occupying it"
US architecture studios Pei Cobb Freed & Partners and Moody Nolan have unveiled a museum in South Carolina that is lifted off the ground above a site where many enslaved people disembarked More
In Situ Studio cuts "hoop" opening in cantilevered welcome centre roof
Local architecture firm In Situ Studio wrapped an art museum visitor centre in Raleigh, North Carolina with darkened steel and cantilevered a roof with an aperture over its patio. More
Wutopia Lab tops underground museum in China with sweeping concrete roof
Shanghai-based studio Wutopia Lab has created Deep Time Palace, an underground museum in Changchun featuring a wavy concrete roof with eye-shaped openings. More
Johanna Agerman Ross appointed chief curator at London's Design Museum
V&A curator Johanna Agerman Ross has been named chief curator of the Design Museum and will take on the role in September. More
OMA envelopes Buffalo art museum extension in transparent "veil"
OMA's New York office led by architect Shohei Shigematsu has completed an expansion to Buffalo's AKG Art Museum that features a promenade encased in a glass facade. More
Michael Maltzan completes decades-long revamp of LA's Hammer Museum
A new lobby and sculpture terrace are among the final additions to a Los Angeles art museum that was strategically revamped over a 23-year period by local studio Michael Maltzan Architecture. More
Smritivan Earthquake Memorial Museum steps up slope below Indian fort
Architecture studio Vastushilpa Consultants has created a museum and memorial in India to honour the victims of the 2001 Gujarat earthquake and celebrate the resilience of the local Kutch community. More