Posts Tagged ‘museum’

SMO Architektur designed this extension to the Max Ernst Museum in Brühl. Thiry year after Max Ernst’s death, his home town Brühl in Rheinland opened a museum for the art off Max Ernst. It has been set up in the former Brühl Pavilion, a neoclassical palais built in 1844, where Ernst went dancing as a schoolboy. Visit [...]


Architect Pascal Grasso designed a temporary, transportable restaurant on the roof of Le Palais de Tokyo museum in Paris, France. The temporary structure, features a dining room for twelve people with a very nice panoramic view over the Seine and the Eiffel tower in Paris. The restaurant comprises a glass cabin with perforated metal screen that covers the [...]


Rotterdam-based 123DV Architectuur & Consult BV transformed a former ammunition factory into a conference room and art gallery at the Taets Artgallery in Zaandam, Netherlands
While the exterior of the building was kept as it was, the new art and conference roomin the renovated factory, has a stunning interior. Just check out the contrast between the [...]


Berlin practice Magma Architecture designed this installation called Head-in for a solo exhibition of their work at Berlinische Galerie in Berlin, Germany, which took place in 2008.
The structure is supported above the floor and made from fabric stretched between aluminium frames on the walls and ceiling of the gallery. Visitors can view models of the practice’s [...]


The Porsche Museum in Stuttgard, Germany, is designed by Delugan Meissl Associated Architects and houses around 80 chronologically- arranged vehicle exhibits.
The new museum enlightens the visitor in an impressive, clear, and interesting manner about the entire history of what is now Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG. Production cars have been just as important to [...]


Dutch architects UN Studio have created an installation in an abandoned fort as part of RETREAT, an art exhibition that they have curated at Fort Asperen near Leerdam in the Netherlands.

Opening RETREAT Exhibition at KunstFort Asperen, curated by Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos / UNStudio – 28 June open for public.
On June 28th the exhibition RETREAT [...]


’Learning from Nature’
Self-cleaning surfaces, phase changing materials and built-in sensors that generate energy from the footsteps of the visitors. The 3XN pavilion ‘Learning from Nature’ unites the most advanced technologies and intelligent materials in a preview of the innovative architectural design of tomorrow

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art invited the Danish architecture [...]


The Hergé museum has officially opened in Louvain- la- Neuve, a small town near Brussels in Belgium. The museum is dedicated to the work of Hergé (or Georges Remi) who created the Tintin comic books.
The museum has been designed by the French architect Christian de Portzamparc.

Press release:
Over the years, Hergé’s artistic output has become established [...]


Here are some images of architects Herzog & de Meuron’s extension to the Tate Modern art gallery in London, which was recently granted planning permission. The extension will add a new wing and also convert the underground tanks (below),which  previously  used to store oil for the former power station, into new galleries.
The extension will provide display and exhibition spaces, [...]


Visitor centre for the region “Mecklenburgische Seenplatte”. A unique central point in Waren in between Müritz, the older town centre and the surrounding countryside. The Müritzeum museum includes a freshwater aquarium, multimedia exhibits, restaurant and a shop.
Architects: Wingårdh Arkitektkontor
Location: Waren (Müritz), Germany
Construction Year: 2005-2007
Partner in Germany: DGI Bauwerk, Berlin Germany
Constructed Area: 3,137 sqm
Photographer: Wingardh

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