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Minsheng Contemporary Art Museum

Full Metal Jacket: An abandoned electronics factory is converted into a sprawling space for contemporary art.

February 1, 2016

At 985 feet long, an abandoned Panasonic television factory in Beijing offered tantalizing potential as a cultural space—and huge challenges.

Messner Mountain Museum Corones

A mountaineering museum puts the daunting and spectacular landscape around it into sharp focus.

Verena Wisthaler

Suzanne Stephens

December 1, 2015

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Designing a museum is nothing new for Zaha Hadid Architects. Creating one on top of Mount Kronplatz in northern Italy is something else entirely.

Sir John Soane's House Museum, Restored Private Rooms

Sir John Soane at Home: The restoration of private rooms in the London house museum of the innovative early 19th-century architect allows a broader look into his domestic life.

Chris Foges

September 16, 2015

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John Soane's private apartment, on the third floor of his extraordinary London house at 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, was a refuge for the architect and his wife, Eliza, within a building that was also his office, salon, and showcase for a vast collection of art and antiquities.

The Broad Museum by Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Los Angeles

Sarah Amelar

September 16, 2015

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An art museum in Los Angeles lifts its perforated veil, revealing the repository for its vast holdings.

Prada Foundation by OMA

Milan

Fred A. Bernstein

July 16, 2015

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At an old distillery complex, Rem Koolhaas's Prada Foundation mixes one part creative preservation with one part bold new architecture.

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art by OMA

Moscow

Justin McGuirk

July 16, 2015

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Rem Koolhaas revamps an industrial-size Soviet-era cafeteria, so it now feeds Russia's desire to play a bigger role on the global art scene.

Whitney Museum of American Art by Renzo Piano Building Workshop

New York City

Clifford A. Pearson

May 16, 2015

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After failed attempts to add on to its iconic uptown venue, the Whitney builds a new home in Manhattan that reaches out to its neighbors.

Corning Museum of Glass Contemporary Art + Design Wing

Corning, New York

Josephine Minutillo

May 16, 2015

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Thomas Phifer and Partners takes advantage of glass's unique qualities with free-flowing galleries inside a light-filled museum.

Anderson Collection at Stanford University

Palette Cleanser: A new campus museum quietly serves up a visual banquet.

Lydia Lee

December 16, 2014

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A new campus museum quietly serves up a visual banquet. It’s tempting for designers to try to turn art museums into works of art themselves. But what if the client’s directive is just the opposite? A new campus museum in the Bay Area by the New York–based firm Ennead Architects may disappoint those hoping for a bigger architectural statement.

Josephine Minutillo

December 16, 2014

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The bucolic backdrop of the recently opened Fondation Louis Vuitton, set within Paris’s Bois de Boulogne park, inspired a garden building in the tradition of Joseph Paxton’s long-destroyed Crystal Palace. Like that famous structure, erected in London’s Hyde Park in 1851, Frank Gehry’s billowing new museum features vast expanses of glass.

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