Museum

Kengo Kuma and Associates recently completed work on an eye-catching timber-clad museum in Turkey named the Odunpazari Modern Museum.

Construction has begun on a large new extension for New York City's American Museum of Natural History. The building, designed by Studio Gang, will boast a degree of sustainable technology and provide additional exhibition spaces, a theater, library, and more.

Britain's Imperial War Museum (IWM) recently gained a new archive to help house its vast collection of records. The IWM Paper Store is one seriously energy efficient building and is also the most airtight Passivhaus project to date, according to International Passivhaus Association records.

Daniel Libeskind's firm Studio Libeskind has unveiled plans for a striking new museum in Kenya that's intended to resemble hand axe tools made by early man. Aiming for a 2024 opening, the museum will explore the history of humans, the science behind climate change and evolution, and more.

Washington DC's International Spy Museum recently moved into a new building designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners​, in collaboration with Hickok Cole. The futuristic-looking museum offers additional space for new exhibits dedicated to the tradecraft, history, and modern role of espionage.

Two years after unveiling one major museum in the Arabian peninsula​, the Louvre Abu Dhabi, Ateliers Jean Nouvel has now completed the National Museum of Qatar, an impressive building defined by hundreds of interlocking vertical and horizontal concrete disks that provide protection from the sun.

Relics of the Cold War that were once top secret are now public exhibits. Case in point is the Titan Missile Museum that was once home to a globe-spanning suborbital missile topped with a nine-megaton nuclear warhead and is now a museum dedicated to the dark days of mutually assured destruction.

Founded in 1966 to preserve America's WW2-era aviation heritage, the Pima Air and Space museum has grown to become one of the biggest in the USA, with more than 350 aircraft. Naturally, there are plenty of war birds on display, but the Pima team has made room for lots of other oddities as well.

Following an architecture competition, Turkey's Melike Altinisik Architects has been selected to create the new Robot Science Museum in Seoul, South Korea. Interestingly, the firm says that the building will be part-constructed using 3D-printing machines, drones, and other robots.

The American Institute of Architects has revealed the recipients of the 2019 Institute Honor Awards for Architecture. Featuring buildings and spaces by US-licensed firms, the winners include museums, affordable housing, and the restoration of an American icon.

Bernard Tschumi Architects' Exploratorium is a scientific museum dedicated to Tianjin, China's industrial history and is host to different examples of technology, including rockets related to space research. The building is defined by a series of large cones that help reduce its energy-usage.

The military is always ahead of the civilian world when it comes to new technologies, and it's staggering to look back and see just how advanced aviation was as early as the 1950s and 60s, with supersonic jets, long-range remote-control helicopters, and other tech that feels way before its time.