Charged with adding expansive and flexible exhibition space to the museum's campus, the Renzo Piano team—who were responsible for the neighboring Broad Contemporary Art Museum, completed in 2008—designed an open-plan pavilion large enough to accommodate large-scale works or several separate exhibitions simultaneously.

A ten-story, 210,510-square-foot museum of the city of Antwerp, with exhibition galleries, a restaurant, an event space, and a panoramic terrace, as well as a plaza that includes a museum shop and a mosaic by Luc Tuymans.

In 1968, the year before the Oakland Museum opened, New York Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable wrote: “In terms of architecture and environment, Oakland may be the most thoughtfully revolutionary museum in the world.”

A two-level, 42,000-square-foot headquarters for the fine-art exhibitions of the Whatcom Museum, which focuses on the history and art of the Northwest. 

Museum expansions designed by prominent architects often result in a new main entrance to the addition’s grand (and new) lobby/party hall.

A 58,857-square-foot museum of modern and contemporary Catalan art in Barcelona's 22@ district, a former industrial zone that the city has redeveloped into a service and tech corridor.

A 129,791-square-foot addition to the Crocker Art Museum, featuring exhibition galleries, a 260-seat auditorium, a double-height reception hall, offices, a store, and a café.

A 161,459-square-foot, three-level museum on the Amstel, housed in a former nursing home from the 17th century.

Joshua Prince-Ramus discusses the challenges and opportunities of working abroad. Fred Bernstein: Did you work with a local architect? What do you look for in a local architect? Joshua Prince-Ramus: Due to the incredibly compressed schedule, we collaborated with a general contractor, moving directly from design development to shop drawings. The contractor would send drawings at the end of their day in Turkey; we would develop them and send them back for the start of their next day — it was almost a 24-hour cycle. On nearly all our other projects, we have collaborated with local firms. We seek true