Art Gallery
Designing spaces for art display, curation, and public engagement in galleries and museums.
Ferris Wheel Art Gallery: A Shaftless Wheel That Carries Visitors Down Into Art
A lattice arch rises over a meadow, hosts a stage at its feet and plunges its glass capsules into a gallery buried beneath the ground.
mise-en-scène: A Gallery That Breaks Every Artwork into Cubist Fragments with Mirrors
Zigzag concrete walls and angled mirrored panels turn a gallery in Sweden into a stage where one sculpture is seen from many angles at once.
Open Art Gallery: A Lifted Steel Box That Hands the Ground Back to the Artists
Ateliers scattered across a sunken public square, the formal gallery floated above, so art gets made in full view of whoever walks past.
Open Art Gallery that promotes Communication: A Courtyard Gallery That Pushes Its Ateliers Outdoors
Hristo Stankushev's Art-ade winner pulls gabled ateliers out of a low white volume, turning the gaps between them into doors, plazas and sunken rooms.
TJAD and DCA Arrange a Huizhou-Inspired Art Museum on a Triangular Grid Beside a Hefei Campus Lake
On the Anhui University of the Arts campus in Hefei, white render, slate and pitched roofs pinwheel around skylit courtyards on a triangular grid.
Various Associates Fits a Flexible White Gallery into a Ground-Floor Shopfront on Shanghai's Yuyuan Road
On Shanghai's century-old Yuyuan Road, a 142 m² renovation uses pivoting white walls, glowing ceilings and deep windows to frame the plane trees outside.
BZP Arquitetura Sinks a Private Art Gallery Halfway into a São Paulo Garden
A 105 m² collector's pavilion in São Paulo reads as a glass box on the lawn, then drops a timber stair into a double-height, fern-lined gallery below.
studioMDA Resurrects a Cast-Iron Tribeca Warehouse as Marian Goodman's New Gallery
An 1875 industrial building on Broadway gets a careful renovation that foregrounds original brick, iron, and archways for contemporary art.
Foster + Partners Shapes a Petal-Form Gallery at the Edge of a Shanghai Park
Jia Art Gallery brings tubular glass ribs and cantilevering volumes to Putuo's Changfeng mixed-use development along the river.
Foster + Partners Shapes a Petal-Form Gallery as the Cultural Heart of Shanghai's Changfeng District
Jia Art Gallery in Putuo draws its curving silhouette from local spring blossoms, anchoring a new mixed-use quarter along the river.
Urban Ark Architects Transforms a 1935 Seoul Hanok into a Gallery Annex for Kukje
A U-shaped courtyard plan turns a nearly century-old timber residence into bookstore, viewing room, and lounge for one of Korea's leading galleries.
BLOCO Arquitetos Designs a Brasilia Home Around Five Inverted Beams and a Private Art Gallery
In Lago Sul, a 600-square-meter house treats its living spaces as exhibition rooms for the family's painting collection.