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Tasked with installing a visitor’s center that doesn’t dominate the landscape at Jodrell Bank astronomical observatory in England, architecture studio Hassell took the approach of burying it near the famous Lovell Telescope. The building – named the Fi… Continue reading Buried visitor’s center incorporates pieces of iconic Lovell Telescope
The yin and yang symbol looms large in the imaginations of many architects. It has provided inspiration for everything from a house to a panda enclosure, and now influences the overall form of an eye-catching museum by Muda Architects.Continue ReadingC… Continue reading Yin and yang symbol informs eye-catching Chinese museum
After 150 years sitting silently in a museum, a strange specimen has now sung its song once more. Scientists have digitally recreated the sound of a long-lost species of insect, not seen since 1869, by creating 3D scans of its wings. The specifics of t… Continue reading Scientists recreate the song of long-lost insect to help find it again
It’s all happening in Milwaukee at the moment. Following the completion of the world’s tallest timber tower, the always-interesting Ennead Architects has revealed design plans for an eye-catching new museum in the city that’s inspired by geological for… Continue reading Giant rocks set to roll into downtown Milwaukee as new museum
A beautiful chapter of the history of invention in the United States ended with a fire in 1880. Well, the fire took place in 1877, but the wheels of government …read more Continue reading Patents and the Missing Museum
Australian architectural studio Kerstin Thompson Architects (KTA) is behind the spectacular new Bundanon Art Museum & The Bridge for Creative Learning. Located in the rural town of Shoalhaven, two and a half hours south of Sydney, the striking new muse… Continue reading Bridge museum spanning 160-m gully is built to withstand climate change
Though it doesn’t offer the kind of quirky novelty we often associate with Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), this recently completed adaptive reuse project showcases the firm’s subtler side. It involved transforming two aging hospital buildings into a refugee… Continue reading Curving Danish refugee museum tastefully merges old with new
Following the Plus and Zurich Airport – Dock A, the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) continues its embrace of sustainable timber construction with an eye-catching museum. The National Juneteenth Museum will be arranged into an undulating star-like shape and w… Continue reading Undulating timber museum celebrates the end of African American slavery
Taking the form of two artificial hillsides topped by huge rooftop garden space, the recently completed Museum of Ethnography serves as an extension to an adjacent park in Budapest, Hungary. The museum also features a glazed facade shaded by an intrica… Continue reading Part-subterranean museum extends park with huge rooftop garden
Kengo Kuma & Associates is a world leader in museum design, with notable projects including the V&A Dundee and OMM. For its recent Hans Christian Andersen museum, the influential Japanese firm drew inspiration from the famed storyteller to design a par… Continue reading Fairytale-inspired museum celebrates the work of Hans Christian Andersen