Living Museum
Museums designed as dynamic spaces that integrate architecture, landscape, and cultural memory into living environments.
HYP-ARCH Wraps a Spiral Museum Around the Memory of a Vanished Zhengzhou Village
A 3,100 m² museum in Zhengzhou's Jinshui District preserves the story of Liuzhuang, an urban village that once sheltered 300,000 migrant workers.
Spaceworkers Anchors a Red Concrete Museum to the Algarve Cliffs at Vila do Bispo
A pair of repurposed granaries and a new pigmented-concrete volume form a cultural anchor in southern Portugal's windswept coastal town.
Rocco Design Architects Stack the Forbidden City Vertically on Hong Kong's Waterfront
A 30,000-square-meter museum in West Kowloon translates Beijing's courtyard sequence into a tower of three rotating atria facing harbor and sea.
MAD Architects Spirals a Science Museum Around Three Cores on the Edge of a Hainan Wetland
A biomorphic tower of 843 FRP panels rises six stories above reflecting pools in Haikou's Free-Trade Port district, turning science education inside out.
CSADI Carves a Jade Blade into the Qinling Mountains for China's First Ecology Museum
A 43,788 square meter terraced museum in Shangluo draws its form from a Xia Dynasty artifact and steps down toward the valley below.
Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Build a Shtetl from Memory in the Lithuanian Countryside
A cluster of 40,000 aluminum-shingled roofs in Šeduva reimagines a Jewish village erased overnight in 1941.
Nola Arquitetura Builds Brazil's Largest Laminated Wood Arch to Shelter Vintage Aircraft
A 50-meter free-span hangar in southern Brazil channels the spirit of early aviation with eucalyptus arches and galvanized steel.
STA Threads a Museum of Heartbreak Through a Colonial Building in Chiang Mai
A 308-square-metre renovation turns a historic Thai shophouse into a traveling museum's permanent Southeast Asian home.
Dabbagh Architects Builds a Museum in Al Ain That Wraps Around the Archaeology Beneath It
An 8,000-square-meter cultural institution in the UAE oasis city treats its own excavated ground as the primary exhibit.
Wood Marsh Expands the Potter Museum with Civic Grace
A mirrored glass pavilion and vaulted galleries extend the University of Melbourne's art museum into a new era of public engagement.
Natural History Museum Architecture
A regenerative natural history museum architecture that reconnects humans with nature through landscape, ramps, courtyards, and public movement.
Atelier Data Threads a Private Collection Through the Ancient Walls of an Alentejo Town
In Estremoz, Portugal, a collector's house becomes a museum that stitches new vaulted volumes into the medieval fabric of the old quarter.
