Museum
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BIG recently completed a new refugee museum in Denmark. Located at what was once the country's largest WWII refugee site, it transforms two aging hospital buildings into a museum by linking them together with a modern curving entrance lobby.
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BIG continues its embrace of sustainable timber construction with the National Juneteenth Museum. It will take the shape of a star and will be dedicated to telling the story of the holiday and hosting exhibitions events on African American freedom.
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Taking the form of artificial hillsides topped by rooftop gardens, the Museum of Ethnography serves as an extension to an adjacent park, and has a glazed facade shaded by an intricate screen that contain almost half a million laser-cut metal pieces.
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Kengo Kuma & Associates is a world leader in museum design. For its recent Hans Christian Andersen museum, the Japanese firm drew inspiration from the famed storyteller to design a part-subterranean building defined by its eye-catching use of timber.
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High-profile firm Mecanoo has revealed plans for a new natural history museum in Abu Dhabi. The greenery covered building is designed to take the form of natural rock formations and will host amazing archeological specimens inside.
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Dubai isn't lacking in amazing buildings, but the Museum of the Future is sure to turn heads. The building takes the overall form of a big silvery eye and sports an intricate facade that's covered in Arabic calligraphy.
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The most discerning of dinosaur-obsessed kids always knew that Triceratops was the coolest. And now, the coolest specimen of this coolest dinosaur has just gone on public display for the first time – Horridus, the world's most complete Triceratops.
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Gensler has revealed plans for a new museum in California that's dedicated to the history of test flights and historic aircraft. The building will feature an eye-catching angular roof that's inspired by the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk stealth plane.
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MAD Architects has revealed plans for a stunning new museum slated for Guanghan, China. The Eyes of Sanxingdui consists of a series of timber-lined buildings rising out of the water-laden landscape that are inspired by ancient eye masks.
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Looking like a big holey pancake nestled among the trees, the House of Music, Hungary continues Sou Fujimoto Architects' practice of producing eye-catching works with a new museum conceived as a continuation of the park landscape it's located in.
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Having begun construction back in 2011, Foster + Partners' Datong Art Museum has now finally opened. It's defined by a complex roofline made up of four overlapping steel pyramids that are designed to resemble natural peaks rising out of the ground.
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The new Edvard Munch museum cuts a distinctive figure on the Oslo waterfront. It's hailed by Estudio Herreros as one of the world's largest museums dedicated to a single artist and showcases the Norwegian artist's works.
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