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The National Museum of Western Art, designed by Le Corbusier, was the premier public art gallery in Japan specializing in art from the Western tradition. The Museum is located in the museum and zoo complex in Ueno Park in Taito,…
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Completed in 1963, the Gandhi Memorial Museum was designed by Charles Correa and is located in the Ashram, where the Mahatma lived from 1917 to 1930. Housing his books, letters, and photographs, this modest and humanly scaled memorial uses brick…
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Completed in 2018 on a peaceful beach along the coast of northern China’s Bohai Bay, the UCCA Dune Art Museum designed by Chinese architecture firm OPEN Architecture is carved into the sand, gently fading with the existing natural dunes.
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Along the Shanghai’s Huangpu River banks, five decommissioned aviation fuel tanks once stood abandoned on an empty industrial site. Today, these tanks and the surrounding site – forgotten relics of the city’s former Longhua Airport – have been given new…
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Completed in 2014 by renowned Spanish architect Rafael Moneo, the University of Navarra Museum has been designed to blend with the existing campus without spoiling the natural setting.
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In July of 2020, the Fundación Engel launched the National Architecture and Landscaping Competition; the objective was to select a proposal from which the New Museum in Santiago (NuMu) will be developed and open to the community in the near…
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Completed in 2020 by Chinese architecture firm Studio Zhu-Pei, the Imperial Kiln Museum rediscovers Jingdezhen’s city’s roots. The structure comprises more than half a dozen brick vaults inspired by the ancient kiln complexes’ traditional forms.
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The Wolfhorse by Vardehaugen studio is a very flexible art pavilion tailored for exhibitions and pop-up events in urban spaces.
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In 2019 Danish Architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group completed the Twist Museum in Jevnaker, Norway. As a land art intervention, the building works as a bridge and creates an interior space for art with a simple twist.
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At the end of 2020, the construction of the Akhenaten Archaeological Museum in Minya is set to be completed according to Egypt’s antiquities ministry officials. The German government designed the museum as a gift for the Egyptian government in 1998…
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Completed in 1992 by Japanese architect Hiroshi Naito, the Sea Folk Museum is an example of wood Japanese craft with an 18.5 meter-wide (60.7 feet) roof constructed of laminated timber trusses. Sunlight fills this generous space from a central skylight,…
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The Benesse House Museum designed by Tadao Ando opened in 1992 as a facility integrating a museum with a hotel based on the concept of “coexistence of nature, art, and architecture.” The project is built on high ground overlooking the Seto…
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