A personal review of design creations
The International African American Museum
The International African American Museum opens this weekend in Charleston at the waterfront site that served as the port of arrival for nearly half of all enslaved Africans brought to North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
A Floating Pavilion as prelude of a Museum of Immersive Art
Indirectly linked to the origins of its hosts city, the new venue prefigures the intersection of architecture and visual arts and appeal to all senses.
Designmuseum Danmark reopens after Two-year Renovation
After a two-year total renovation, Designmuseum Danmark is now welcoming again visitors. Eight new exhibitions that show the impressive breadth and depth of the museum’s collections are on display.
6 Rooms × 6 Positions
Six Swiss design studios design a room and furnish it with pieces from the Zurich Design Museum collection. Jörg Boner, Connie Hüsser, Kueng Caputo, Sebastian Marbacher, Panter&Tourron and Adrien Rovero showcase their favourite objects and convey a sense of how they work and what drives them.
#Landmark: Dinan Train Station from Celtic Art Déco to Contemporary Architecture
The city of Dinan has recently added a new public space next to its very iconic train station. The contemporary element completes the already eye-catching Celtic Art-Déco train station with its 32-m tall tower.
Shepparton Art Museum by Denton Corker Marshall
Australia’s newest art museum, Shepparton Art Museum opened its doors with nine free exhibitions, four new artwork commissions and presenting more than 200 artists in a celebration of the area’s rich and diverse culture, people and landscape.
Denver Art Museum Design Galleries and Studio by OMA
For its new design galleries, the museum has inaugurated an open, central piazza surrounded by perimeter rooms organised in an alternating sequence of rooms and islands.
M+ Hong Kong, Asia’s First Global Museum of Visual Culture
Announced back in 2012, M+, by Herzog & de Meuron, opens to the public on November 12th with three weekends of celebratory programmes.
Munch Museum by estudio Herreros
Over 13 floors, five time the size of the original building, the new museum on Oslo waterfront, will house more than 26,000 works that Edvard Munch bequeathed to the City.
#Landmark – The Humboldt Forum In Berlin - Part 2 - A Contemporary Home for the Arts
The partial reconstruction of the Berlin Palace was made under one condition: the castle should always remain recognisable from the outside but its interiors is now dedicated to Exhibitions, Ethnography and Asia Arts.
Part 2 – The Humboldt Forum - A Contemporary Home for the Arts