Museum
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Renowned architect Renzo Piano's firm has completed a new energy efficient museum in Istanbul. The building responds to the waterfront site with an eye-catching aluminum and glass exterior that references the city's maritime history.
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Following the completion of its Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts just a few days ago, Studio Gang has now finished work on its American Museum of Natural History extension, which features an eye-catching sculpted rock-like form.
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Studio Gang's highly anticipated Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts project has finally opened to the public, following a painstaking renovation and extension of the aging museum, including an interesting pleated roof that helps reduce its overall energy use.
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Saudi Arabia is currently undergoing a huge development push to help turn the country into a tourism hotspot. As part of this effort, Heatherwick Studio is transforming a former desalination plant on the Jeddah waterfront into a one-of-a-kind museum.
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Commissioned to create a science fiction museum in China, Zaha Hadid Architects has produced a building that wouldn't look too out of place in a sci-fi movie itself and is conceived as an expanding nebula cloud with a star at its center.
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Famous video of a thylacine in captivity may not depict the last member of the species after all, according to new research. Australian scientists have rediscovered the preserved remains of a later thylacine in the collection of a museum in Tasmania.
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The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has undergone as many twists and turns as a Hollywood script since it was unveiled in 2014. Having missed its planned 2021 completion date, the ambitious project is now set for a 2025 opening.
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The First Light Pavilion at Jodrell Bank places a visitor's center next to the site's famous Lovell Telescope. The subterranean building has the same dimensions as the telescope's dish, and in a nice touch makes use of its original steel panels too.
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The yin and yang symbol looms large in the imaginations of many architects. It has provided inspiration for everything from a house to a panda enclosure, and now influences the overall form of an eye-catching museum by Muda Architects.
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Scientists have digitally recreated the sound of a long-lost species of insect, not seen since 1869, by creating 3D scans of its wings. The specifics of the tune could help track down living specimens in the wild – if there are any left.
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Ennead Architects has been commissioned to design an eye-catching new museum in Milwaukee. Inspired by the rugged local landscape, the building will take the form of geological formations and is slated to open in 2026.
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Located in the rural town of Shoalhaven, two and a half hours south of Sydney, this striking new museum stretches an impressive 160 meters across a gully and is built to withstand the harsh effects climate change.
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