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This museum is carved into the seaside sand dunes of China’s Gold Coast

International firm OPEN Architecture has unveiled a stunning museum embedded into the sand dunes along China's...

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LEED Silver museum’s shimmering, iridescent facade evokes flames in Kansas

When Boston-based architecture practice Verner Johnson was tapped to design the $17.3 million Museum at Prairiefire...

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Energy-savvy art museum is anchored atop a historic Dutch dike

Rising out of a historic dike, the new Lisser Art Museum pays homage to the landscape’s context while offering...

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Snarkitecture’s mind-bending Fun House opens at the National Building Museum

In Washington D.C., a massive, mind-bending Fun House has taken over the National Building Museum to offer an interactive...

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MVRDV will transform the Tirana Pyramid, a former communist monument, into an education center

Albania’s controversial Tirana Pyramid—a former monument to the country’s communist leader—will finally...

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China’s first Slow Food Village will promote local foods and traditions

Rural-urban migration in China is at an all-time high, with experts estimating an influx of 243 million migrants...

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Snarkitecture’s Fun House will take over the National Building Museum

It’s almost that time again—the National Building Museum’s (NBM) Great Hall will undergo another dramatic...

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Former car factory to house Brussels’ “Centre Pompidou” cultural hub

A former Citroën car factory will be transformed into a major cultural hub for Brussels. The KANAL - Centre Pompidou...

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Steven Holl Architects unveils designs for geothermal-powered Angers Collectors Museum

Steven Holl Architects and Compagine de Phalsbourg have won an international design competition for the new Angers...

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Futuristic “spaceship” Lucas Museum breaks ground in Los Angeles

MAD Architects just officially broke ground on the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles’ Exposition Park...

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Perkins+Will unveil plans for green-roofed Suzhou Science & Technology Museum

The Chinese city of Suzhou is ringing in the New Year with plans for a green-roofed behemoth of a museum rivaling...

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Büro Ole Scheeren completes art museum near Beijing’s Forbidden City

Büro Ole Scheeren recently completed Guardian Art Center, a contemporary art museum heralded as the “world’s...

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BIG unveils sweeping overhaul to Smithsonian Campus Master Plan

BIG has unveiled an updated vision for the Smithsonian Campus Master Plan, a major redevelopment project in Washington,...

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Mirrored pavilion all but disappears into nature

Portuguese architecture agency depA has hidden a pavilion in plain sight. This camouflaged structure, clad in mirrored...

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Jean Nouvel-designed Louvre Abu Dhabi set to open in November

Jean Nouvel's Louvre Abu Dhabi – the first universal museum in the Arab world – will open its doors to the...

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Snooty, the world’s oldest living manatee in captivity, dies at age 69

Grab your tissues, folks. A 1,300-pound manatee named Snooty recently passed away after celebrating his 69th birthday....

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Provocative timber horn explores the hypnotic pull of the unknown

Digital fabrication and traditional woodworking fuse together in Y, a modern sculpture with a provocative and pixelated...

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BIG hides an “invisible museum” beneath Denmark’s sand dunes

Don’t be fooled by these gentle sand dunes—hidden in the landscape is an “invisible museum.” Bjarke Ingels...

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World’s first porcelain courtyard opens at London’s V&A Museum

London’s world-renowned Victoria & Albert Museum has made art even more accessible to the masses with the...

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South Africa’s first Green Star museum is an eco-friendly literary treasure

One of South Africa’s literary treasures has transformed into an eco-friendly gem. Designed by Intsika Architects,...

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Amazing elevated museum lets you stroll through the treetops in British Columbia

This angular museum meanders through a forest in British Columbia. Canadian firm Patkau Architects designed the...

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Haunting Human Gyre made of over 200 underwater figures warns of climate change

A haunting sight awaits scuba divers on an Atlantic seabed. Over two hundred life-size human figures have been...

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Spectacular new shipping container museum nestles near China’s Great Wall

Nestled near China's famous Great Wall rests a new cultural museum made with shipping containers. The Zhao Hua...

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Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum is sustainably built from CNC-milled beetle-kill timber

A jagged form dramatically rises from one of the world’s richest dinosaur bone beds—a fertile basin along Pipestone...

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This Czech archaeological museum springs from the ground like a series of caves

In a project that joins modern architecture with ancient archaeological finds, the Czech Republic’s new Archeopark...

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Manetti Shrem Museum’s 50,000-square-foot canopy was inspired by the agrarian landscape

The light-filled, multi-use building was built to further the educational mission of the museum and become a new...

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Quirky Pinocchio-themed museum looks like it came out of Geppetto’s workshop

This unusual complex occupies a irregularly-shaped piece of land located on the outskirts of north eastern Seoul....

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London’s new Design Museum opens this week inside a renovated post-war modernist building

Topped with a sweeping paraboloid copper-clad concrete roof, the Design Museum’s new building features a double-glazed...

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Poland’s National Museum in Szczecin wins World Building of the Year 2016

Hidden underground so as not to obstruct views of the neighboring Philharmonic Hall (the 2015 winner of the Mies...

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Dinosaur egg museum in China is built from bamboo and concrete

Located in Qinglong Mountain National Geological Park, the dragon egg museum and its form was determined by the...

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