Cultural Buildings 2021

Kunsthaus Zürich. Photo © Noshe

In this collection, RECORD showcases new cultural buildings, including several museums, a performance space, and one novel typology: a publicly accessible art storage facility. The projects below—located in San Diego, Hong Kong, Tehran, and beyond—represent a wide array of aesthetic expressions, from a craggy boulder-shaped volume in the mountains near Beijing to an exquisitely detailed temple-like box in Zurich. These buildings for the arts, by Herzog & de Meuron, MVRDV, and OPEN Architecture, among others, thoughtfully consider their surroundings while advancing the missions of the institutions they house.

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Mingei International Museum

Joann Gonchar, FAIA, LEED AP, is deputy editor at Architectural Record. She joined RECORD in 2006, after working for eight years at its sister publication, Engineering News-Record. Before starting her career as a journalist, Joann worked for several architecture firms and spent three years in Kobe, Japan, with the firm Team Zoo, Atelier Iruka. She earned a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University. She is licensed to practice architecture in New York State.