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Museums collects ArchEyes case studies of buildings for art, history and science, a typology where architects test light, sequence and structure most freely. The archive spans Peter Zumthor’s Kolumba in Cologne, Tadao Ando’s Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis, SANAA’s Toledo Museum Glass Pavilion, Snøhetta’s SFMOMA expansion and the Estonian National Museum by DGT, as well as small museums in rural China. Each project shows how display, daylight and circulation shape the visitor’s encounter with a collection.
Kunsthaus Graz, designed by Peter Cook and Colin Fournier, inserts a free-form contemporary art museum into Graz’s riverfront fabric beside the Mur. Completed in 2003, the building combines a blue…
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The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA and opened in October 2004, is a circular glass building 112.5 meters in…
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The Teshima Art Museum, designed by Ryue Nishizawa with the artist Rei Naito and completed in 2010, is a single, column-free concrete shell set into a restored rice terrace above…
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The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art occupies a former parking area at the northwest edge of Los Angeles’s Exposition Park. Designed by MAD with landscape architecture by Studio-MLA, the five-story…
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Atelier Peter Zumthor’s expansion of the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen distributes museum galleries, public events, and art logistics across three buildings set within a restored nineteenth-century landscape garden. The intervention…
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Architectural designer Qingmai Ni conceived and developed Embodied Viewing: An Immersive Extension for Cooper Hewitt, an independent architectural proposal that received a Silver award. The recognition went to an idea…
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GAM Torino is a proposed renovation of Turin’s Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art by MVRDV with Balance Architettura, reworking the 1959 building by Carlo Bassi and Goffredo Boschetti…
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Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice is a 16th-century palazzo transformed through successive architectural interventions by Carlo Scarpa, Valeriano Pastor, Mario Botta, and Michele De Lucchi, forming a layered cultural complex…
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Peter Zumthor’s Shelter for the Roman Archaeological Site in Chur protects the in situ remains of Roman buildings through three timber lamella enclosures that translate archaeological footprints into contemporary architectural…
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Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art by ATTA – Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects transforms an early-twentieth-century brick warehouse in northern Japan into a contemporary art museum, preserving the material memory of…
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The Estonian National Museum in Tartu, designed by Dorell.Ghotmeh.Tane / Architects occupies the charged terrain of a former Soviet military airfield in Raadi, transforming the surviving runway into the organizing…
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Astruptunet Visitor Center is a 2024 competition proposal by Brøn Studio for a cultural visitor facility in Jolster, Norway. Set between a steep forested slope and the edge of the…
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SANAA’s Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art is a low, square, glass-walled building in Toledo, Ohio, that combines collection galleries, glassmaking workshops, public rooms, and courtyards within a…
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Bjerkebaek Visitors Center in Lillehammer is a museum threshold built at the edge of Sigrid Undset’s protected home and garden. Designed as a low linear structure between road and landscape…
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