Building projects

Princeton University Art Museum to open in brand-new building on 31 October

Just in time for Halloween, the museum will celebrate with a 24-hour open house

Vancouver Art Gallery parts ways with director and chief executive Anthony Kiendl

Kiendl’s departure comes a few months after the gallery pulled the plug on an ambitious but costly building project it had already spent C$60m on

São Paulo's Museu de Arte to unveil sprawling expansion featuring 14-storey tower

This month’s opening will more than double the museum's space, and help to overcome its infrastructure limitations

A new destination for contemporary art takes shape in Guayaquil, Ecuador

Construction on the Eacheve Foundation’s new complex broke ground in January and is on track to be completed in time for an opening in autumn 2025

National Gallery launches new learning centre, the first bicentenary capital project to open to the public

The architect Hannah Lawson and the London museum’s education chief Karen Eslea consulted school children, teachers and parents to give the Roden Centre for Creative Learning a welcoming character

Manhattan’s New Museum will reopen this autumn following $82m expansion

The new seven-storey, 61,930 sq. ft building will effectively double the museum’s gallery space

Architect Lina Ghotmeh wins competition to revamp British Museum’s vast Western Range galleries

Ghotmeh beat five architect-led teams to land what the museum has called “one of the biggest cultural renovations undertaken anywhere in the world”

Indian government remains ‘evasive’ over plans for the world’s biggest museum

The ambitious project will replace the National Museum in New Delhi—but crucial details remain under wraps

Vancouver Art Gallery invites proposals from Canadian architecture firms as it restarts building project

The gallery recently cancelled a project designed by the Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron after its budget ballooned by 50%

French president calls for a ‘new renaissance’ of the Louvre

Emmanuel Macron has thrown his weight behind a grandiose €800m renovation plan, including building a subterranean complex around Leonardo's Mona Lisa

New Alexander Calder institution in Philadelphia sets opening date

Calder Gardens, which will be housed in a Herzog & de Meuron-designed building on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, has also appointed a senior director of programmes

New York’s Climate Museum secures permanent location

The new, 24,000 sq. ft museum will be part of a recently announced $1.35bn mixed-use development near Hudson Yards

How Amsterdam’s Drift Museum is working to create more energy than it uses

Sustainability features at heritage-listed former railway factory will include heating system that stores summer warmth for use in the winter months

London-based Studio Weave wins competition to revamp British Museum entrance

New welcome pavilions and a landscaped forecourt are scheduled for completion early 2026

Metropolitan Museum reveals design for new $550m wing for Modern and contemporary art

Designs for the Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing, conceived by the architect Frida Escobedo, show a stepped exterior of latticed limestone

Vancouver Art Gallery scraps plan for new, $444m Herzog and de Meuron-designed building

The institution ended its partnership with the Swiss firm, begun nearly a decade ago, as it reassesses its plans

Frick Collection to reopen in April with Vermeer exhibition in the works

Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum is returning the favour and lending one of its works after showing the Frick’s Vermeers in its blockbuster exhibition last year

New-York Historical Society changes its name and reveals plans for new $175m wing

The museum's new wing dedicated to American democracy will open in 2026, just in time for the US’s semiquincentennial

Gift of more than $45m and 331 works for the Clark Art Institute

The gifts, from the foundation of the late trustee Aso O. Tavitian, will allow the Massachusetts museum to build a new wing

Modern Art Oxford gallery gets a £2m revamp

The new space's inaugural show is dedicated to the pioneering Cuban artist Belkis Ayón

Victoria and Albert Museum reveals opening date and programme for ambitious new east London storehouse

The museum has also announced details of the much anticipated David Bowie Centre, due to be housed on the same site

'We have been able to act as a safe space': amid war in Gaza, London's Mosaic Rooms announces major expansion plans

The non-profit space dedicated to Arab culture has been a vocal supporter of a ceasefire, and now aims to increase its space and income streams

Abu Dhabi bets on repeating Las Vegas's success: Sphere to open second giant immersive institution

Capital of United Arab Emirates to build block-sized showcase for stadium-scaled concerts and giant video works by leading digital artists

ICA Miami buys former de la Cruz Collection building

The acquisition doubles the museum’s space for public programmes, which it will use for a new media gallery, permanent collection displays and more

Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino gets $2m donation from PepsiCo

The soft drink company's gift will support the planning, designing and building of the museum's future complex in Washington, DC

New arts district takes shape in Dallas’s northern suburbs

Three institutions have joined forces to transform a corner of the University of Texas at Dallas into a cultural hub

Plans for Centre Pompidou outpost in New Jersey are revived, in a new space

The hotly debated Jersey City satellite of the venerated Parisian institution appears to be back on the books after it was "paused indefinitely" in June

Las Vegas’s Neon Museum set for $45m relocation and expansion

The beloved but cramped attraction will move to sites in the Arts District, near the future site of the Las Vegas Museum of Art

Lacma pushes back opening of new building until 2026

Museum leaders are hoping to organise public programming in the empty building next year

Fondation Cartier reveals plans for new Paris space designed by Jean Nouvel

The French architect will modernise the historic site, which is due to open next year near the Louvre