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The Speed Art Museum in Louisville Announces Plans for Sculpture-Studded Public Green Space

August 15, 2023

The three-acre park at Kentucky’s largest art institution will be designed by Reed Hilderbrand and feature works by Zaha Hadid, Kulapat Yantrasast, and others.

Moveable Floating Galleries Bring a Burst of Color to Shigeru Ban’s Simose Art Museum

Naomi Pollock, FAIA

August 15, 2023

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Located outside of Hiroshima, the seaside project highlights the Pritzker Prize–winning Japanese architect’s novel use of existing technologies and materials.

Snapshot: The Soane Museum in London Opens the Drawing Office to the Public

After a year of renovation, a long-hidden space is revealed

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

July 24, 2023

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The room that housed Sir John Soane's architectural practice is restored.

The Bruce Museum by EskewDumezRipple Integrates Spaces for Science and Art

James McCown

July 14, 2023

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The renovation and expansion of a regional institution embrace its sloped site and local history.

The Frances M. Maguire Art Museum by DIGSAU Revives a Much Loved Home for Art

Lower Merion, Pennsylvania

Suzanne Stephens

July 13, 2023

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The former Paul Cret–designed Barnes Foundation is transformed into a university art museum.

At Herzog & de Meuron's Powerhouse Arts, Nostalgia for a Lost Industrial Past

Brooklyn, New York

Izzy Kornblatt

July 11, 2023

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An abandoned turbine hall in Brooklyn finds new life as a facility for art fabrication.

Buildings for the Arts 2023

July 11, 2023

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New meets old with this quartet of high-profile U.S. arts center projects—major museum revamps among them—in Buffalo, Brooklyn, suburban Philadelphia, and Greenwich, Connecticut.

OMA Designs a New Wing for Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Leopoldo Villardi

July 5, 2023

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The Buffalo AKG Art Museum welcomes visitors after a seven-year effort that included complex negotiations with preservationists.

International African American Museum, Charleston

Decades in the Making, the International African American Museum Opens in Charleston

Aaron Smolar

June 23, 2023

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Designed by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners with Moody Nolan and Hood Design Studio, the much-anticipated project faced controversy and COVID-related setbacks on its road to completion.

Double Vision: Studio Gang Takes on Renovations and Expansions at Two American Museums

New York / Little Rock, Arkansas

Clifford A. Pearson

June 15, 2023

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Studio Gang-designed additions to the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock open to the public.