Museum
Museum design and architecture exploring spatial experiences, material narratives, and cultural memory.
CADG Sinks China's Largest Subterranean Archaeological Museum into 6,800 Years of History
The Dahecun Site Museum disappears beneath the Zhengzhou landscape to honor the Yangshao Culture that shaped the Yellow River basin.
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.
TAISEI DESIGN Sculpts a Concrete Landform on the Kobe Waterfront to House an Aquarium and Food Hall
Kobe Port Museum channels the tectonic history of Japan's seismic coast into a faceted concrete volume holding 60 aquarium tanks and a rooftop garden.
SANAA Steps a Cluster of Glass and Limestone Pavilions Down a Sydney Hillside Toward the Harbour
The Sydney Modern Museum transforms the Art Gallery of New South Wales with 40,000 square metres of galleries, tanks, and terraces above wartime ruins.
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.
gmp Architects Plants a Metal-Clad Science Museum on the Edge of Jiaozhou Bay
A 40,000 square meter cultural cube on Hong Island channels Qingdao's marine identity through architecture oriented entirely toward the sea.
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.
Kengo Kuma Wraps a Paris Museum in a Biological Skin of Aluminum and Wood
The Albert Kahn Museum in Boulogne-Billancourt reinterprets the Japanese engawa as a filter between city street and historic garden.
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.
