National Art Museum of China / UNStudio

© UNStudio.

For their latest museum design in Beijing, Ben van Berkel and UNStudio have designed a formal expression which takes ques from Chinese culture to create an architecture that offers dynamically varied spaces for the NAMOC collections.  Based on uniting dualities – past and future, day and night, inside and outside, calm and dynamic, large and small, individual and collective – the two volumes reference ancient Chinese ‘stone drums’ and function in a contemporary way as a media facade with illuminated art projections. via Archdaily

New Taipei City Museum of Art Proposal / OTA+

Courtesy of OTA+

The proposal for the New Taipei City Museum of Art by OTA+ challenges the traditional definition of a museum and the conventional relationship between building and site. By freeing the ground plane of enclosed semi-public space, the interface between the museum and the site offers a new experience of a museum; one that is open, friendly, and welcoming. More images and architects’ description after the break. via Archdaily

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts extension by Rick Mather

The quite popular Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in beautiful Richmond, VA has received an extension by London architect Rick Mather. It has just recently been opened to the public and will feature an exhibition on Louis Comfort Tiffany until August 15th, 2010. Here is a a brief intro from the museum website:

The first major exhibition to be shown at VMFA after the grand opening of the McGlothlin Wing celebrates one of America’s greatest artists. Tiffany: Color and Light is the most important exhibition of the work of renowned designer and master of glass, Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933) in a generation and VMFA will be the only American museum to show the exhibition. Drawing on the finest collections in Europe, North America, and Russia, the exhibition presents Tiffany as an artist of international stature and significance.

diller scofidio + renfro to design berkeley art museum

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diller scofidio + renfro to design berkeley art museum

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