Museums

Messner Mountain Museum Corones | Zaha Hadid Architects | Bolzano, Italy
A mountaineering museum puts the daunting and spectacular landscape around it into sharp focus. Make sure to watch the time-lapse construction video!

Whitney Museum of American Art |Renzo Piano Building Workshop in collaboration with Cooper Robertson | New York
After failed attempts to add on to its iconic uptown venue, the Whitney Builds a new home that reaches out to its neighbors. Make sure to watch the time-lapse construction video!

Corning Museum of Glass Contemporary Art + Design Wing | Thomas Phifer and Partners | Corning, New York
Thomas Phifer and Partners takes advantage of glass's unique qualities with free-flowing galleries inside a light-filled museum.

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art | OMA | Moscow
Rem Koolhaas revamps an industrial-size Soviet-era cafeteria, so it now feeds Russia's desire to play a bigger role on the global art scene.

Prada Foundation | OMA | Milan
Fashion Forward: At an old distillery complex, Rem Koolhaas's Prada Foundation mixes one part creative preservation with one part bold new architecture.

Performing Arts

Harbin Opera House | MAD Architects | Harbin, China
The sensual lines of a performing-arts complex express a city's bold bid for attention.

The Strand Theater | SOM | San Francisco
SOM reinvents a 100-year-old theater for a new era.

National Sawdust | Bureau V | New York
A chamber-sized venue in Brooklyn rewrites the score for classical and experimental music.

Poly Grand Theater | Tadao Ando Architect & Associates | Shanghai
A Pritzker Prize–winning architect carves tunnels through a concrete-and-glass box to create a bold theater complex for a burgeoning district in Shanghai.

CaixaForum | Estudio Carme Pinós | Zaragoza, Spain
At a dynamic arts center, L-shaped volumes seem to float as they cantilever out to the surrounding city.