Perth Museum
AT Editor2024-04-04T13:59:04+00:00In the Scottish city of Perth, Dutch studio Mecanoo has given its former city hall a new lease of life as a museum that hosts the Stone of Destiny.
Zaishui Art Museum
AT Editor2024-02-08T09:33:08+00:00A one-kilometre-long art museum in Rizhao, China, by Junya Ishigami forms an inseparable bond with its lake-based site.
De Matos Ryan’s Wonderlab at the National Railway Museum
Jason Sayer2023-10-18T15:14:34+00:00De Matos Ryan's design for Wonderlab: The Bramall Gallery at the National Railway Museum adopts the design language associated with locomotion and aims to inspire the next generation of engineers.
SANAA’s Sydney Modern extends The Art Gallery of New South Wales
Jason Sayer2022-12-01T19:02:27+00:00SANAA's design of 'Sydney Modern', an extension to The Art Gallery of New South Wales, is unveiled as a collection of pavilions that overlook Sydney Harbour.
BDP restores London’s Leighton House museum
AT Editor2022-11-22T12:16:19+00:00BDP’s skilful reworking of Leighton House has breathed new life into one of London’s forgotten museums, the former home of artist Frederic Leighton.
Reframing the past
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:39+00:00As KAAN Architecten rounds off its two-decade transformation of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Louis Mayes gives his verdict on the complex insertion of contemporary exhibition and back-of-house spaces with the neo-classical building.
Narbo Via
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:17:03+00:00Foster + Partners has designed a museum of Roman antiquities for the city of Narbonne in the south of France. Alessandra Fanari enjoys the ambiguities of a sophisticated building where the distinction between architecture and exhibits is decidedly blurred.
House of Music
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:17:04+00:00Sou Fujimoto has completed the House of Music, a music museum and concert venue set beneath an undulating roof inspired by the tree canopy in Budapest's City Park.
Manchester Jewish Museum
Jessica Mairs2021-08-25T16:39:08+00:00With genuine community engagement embedded in the design process, Citizens Design Bureau has carried out a sensitive refurbishment and extension of Manchester’s Jewish Museum. New Architecture Writers Nyima Murry and Lela Sujani speak to practice director Katy Marks ahead of the opening.
Wordsworth Grasmere
AT Editor2021-08-25T16:38:56+00:00Nissen Richards Studio and Purcell have created an engaging new visitor experience for the Museum at Wordsworth Grasmere.
Museum of the Home
AT Editor2021-06-29T09:41:17+00:00Wright & Wright Architects has skilfully reworked London’s Museum of the Home, revitalising and extending the assemblage of 300-year-old almshouses the interiors museum occupies.
Bags of Style
AT Editor2021-05-18T16:48:57+00:00Studio MUTT has completed a striking fashion exhibition at London’s V&A Museum