Public Art
Art installations, galleries, and cultural spaces designed for public engagement and community interaction.
How Henri Picq's 1889 Paris Pavilion Traveled 11,000 Kilometers to Become Santiago's Artequín Museum
A prefabricated iron and glass pavilion built for the Paris Universal Exposition found a second life as a children's art museum in Chile.
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.
Nomos Architects Wraps a Defunct Xi'an Boiler Station in Polycarbonate to Create an Art Community
A coal-burning heating plant from the 1990s becomes a translucent gallery and retail hub in Xi'an's dense residential core.
Schenker Salvi Weber Builds a Children's Art Laboratory That Grows Out of an Austrian Park
In Saint Pölten, a timber and concrete hybrid rises through the trees of Altoona Park as a new kind of cultural institution for children.
Morphosis Lifts a Landscaped Plaza Over 25,000 Square Feet of Gallery Space in Costa Mesa
The new Orange County Museum of Art rethinks the inward-facing institution with a 10,000-square-foot rooftop terrace and terracotta skin.
Opera Truck: Transforming Public Space Through Modular Architecture and Urban Art
A modular urban architecture system transforming Madrid’s plazas into flexible public stages for art, performance, culture, and interaction.
MINOR lab Stitches Three Leftover Spaces into a Community Art Ecosystem in Langfang
A café, gallery, and artist studio carved from residential surplus in a Hebei housing development prove small-scale renewal works.
Floors of Culture: Public Architecture as a Generator of Social Integration
Floors of Culture reimagines public architecture as stacked urban space, reviving social life, creativity, and entrepreneurship within the city fabric.
M.A.U: Museum of Urban Art, Rome
An adaptive reuse architecture project in Rome that transforms infrastructure into a living museum where street art, landscape, and city life merge.
Art Vessels by OPEN Architecture: Transforming Beijing’s Urban Cultural Landscape
Art Vessels by OPEN Architecture transforms a Beijing commercial complex into a flexible cultural center, blending contemporary art with traditional craftsmanship.
AYDC Public Art Center by Atelier XI: Sculptural Public Art Architecture in Nature
Sculptural pavilions by Atelier XI redefine public art architecture in nature, blending community, culture, and landscape in Guiyang.
