Museums + Art Centers
RSS

Biomuseo

Panamania: A museum becomes an instant icon for a developing nation while upping the ante for design excellence.

Beth Broome

October 16, 2014

No Comments

A museum becomes an instant icon for a developing nation while upping the ante for design excellence.

The Museum, Clark Art Institute

A Classic Remastered: A sensitive restoration and renovation of an art museum intensifies its original aura.

Wendy Moonan

August 16, 2014

No Comments

Annabelle Selldorf was an obvious choice to renovate the venerated museum of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, home to a stellar collection of European and American paintings.

Visitor Center, Clark Art Institute

Lasting Impression: Since it opened in 1955, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute has drawn 200,000 visitors annually to see its French Impressionist paintings among 9,000 works of art.

Wendy Moonan

August 16, 2014

No Comments

Last month the Clark completed a $145 million campus expansion on its 140-acre site in the Berkshire mountains of Massachsetts. Included is a new visitor center by Tadao Ando Architect & Associates and a renovation of the existing museum by Selldorf Architects.

Long Museum West Bund

Catalytic Converter: A new art museum transforms an old coal-conveying platform into a different kind of power generator, jump-starting the redevelopment of an industrial part of Shanghai.

Clare Jacobson

August 16, 2014

No Comments

A coal-conveying platform from the 1950s and a parking garage from the first decade of the 21st century act as unlikely form-givers to Atelier Deshaus’s new Long Museum West Bund in Shanghai.

Soulages Museum by RCR Arquitectes

Rodez, France

David Cohn

August 16, 2014

No Comments

A museum in southwest France made of dramatic weathering steel volumes celebrates the monochromatic career of French abstract artist Pierre Soulages.

Aspen Art Museum by Shigeru Ban Architects

Aspen, Colorado

David Hill

August 16, 2014

No Comments

Shigeru Ban's first U.S. building since winning the Pritzker adds a landmark to a city's downtown while looking out to its Rocky Mountain setting.

Delfina Foundation

Artists Colony: A foundation offers food, shelter, and work space in two conjoined townhouses, fostering a kind of think tank for artists.

Hugh Pearman

August 16, 2014

No Comments

Delfina Entrecanales is an unusual cultural philanthropist, her Delfina Foundation in London is an unusual place, and the architectural concept underlying it was born of an unusual international collaboration.

The School by Antonio Jiménez Torrecillas

Kinderhook, New York

William Hanley

August 16, 2014

No Comments

A Spanish architect converts a historic building in upstate New York into an outpost for a Manhattan art dealer.

Museum of the History of Polish Jews

A Monument to Tragedy and Heroism: In the heart of the former Warsaw Ghetto, a museum honors and celebrates the culture and long history of Polish Jews, which stretches far back beyond the tragic events of World War II.

Peter MacKeith

December 16, 2013

No Comments

For 70 years, a square in the northern quarter of Warsaw has been a site of strife and conflict, memory and mourning.

Kimbell Art Museum Addition

With his expansion, Renzo Piano speaks softly to Louis Kahn's masterpiece.

Sarah Williams Goldhagen

December 16, 2013

No Comments

For the general public, the Kimbell Art Museum’s exalted reputation rests on the extraordinarily high quality of its small collection, with hundreds of firstrate pieces by Western painters and sculptors, and a growing cache of Asian and pre-Columbian work.