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+01:00With 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+01:00Nissen 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+01:00Wright & 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+01:00Studio MUTT has completed a striking fashion exhibition at London’s V&A Museum
Remaking Kettle’s Yard
AT Editor2018-04-18T14:20:10+01:00Building Review
Charles Rattray welcomes Jamie Fobert Architects’ deft interventions at the much-loved Cambridge gallery
Going Underground
AT Editor2021-12-07T12:18:12+00:00BIG's Tirpitz museum opens in Blåvand, Denmark.