Building projects

A first glimpse (and listen) inside Lacma’s $720m new building

The David Geffen Galleries, which officially opens next April, recently hosted a preview event and performances by Kamasi Washington and an ensemble of 100 jazz musicians

Frankenthaler Foundation awards grants totalling $3.4m for new climate initiatives

In addition to revealing the 74 recipients of new Frankenthaler Climate Initiative grants, the foundation announced it will extend the initiative another five years

Chile’s immigrant legacy to be brought to life by new museum

Destino Valparaíso, an ambitious new museum funded by a local businessman and housed in a historic former school, seeks to tell the stories of the many diverse groups who helped shape the scenic coastal city

Pompidou moves in as Grand Palais reopens after £395m revamp

As the contemporary art museum begins a five-year renovation, the historic building steps in as its temporary home—testing a new, collaborative institutional model in the heart of Paris

Uovo planning second, larger art storage facility in Brooklyn

The storage and logistics company is seeking municipal approval to build a 240,000 sq. ft facility on a lot in Bushwick currently used for parking

New venue for video, sound and other durational art forms coming to Manhattan

Helmed by the philanthropist Robert Rosenkranz and the founding director of Mass Moca, Joe Thompson, Canyon will open on the Lower East Side in 2026

Tate Liverpool receives £12m from UK government to support delayed revamp

The reopening of regional UK museum was originally due to take place this year, but was pushed back to 2027

Behind the scenes of the Met’s revamped Rockefeller Wing with its acclaimed architect

Kulapat Yantrasast has a design philosophy of “cultural Pad Thai”—multiple perspectives combined into something unique and approachable

Chile to get a new contemporary art museum

The New Museum of Santiago will highlight Latin American artists with more than 1,000 works from the Chilean businessman Claudio Engel’s private collection

Tschabalala Self sculpture of two Black lovers will adorn exterior of New York's New Museum when it reopens

“I wanted to show an aspiration for better times to come,” the artist says of her commission

Chicago's Intuit Art Museum set to unveil $10m renovation

The small but mighty museum for outsider art is reopening after a two-year overhaul

Nelson-Atkins Museum picks architect for $160m expansion

The museum in Kansas City has tapped the firm Weiss Manfredi to overhaul its campus

The Broad breaks ground on its $100m expansion

If everything goes according to plan, the buildout will open just before the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles

Museu de Arte de São Paulo traces its own history and evolution across exhibitions in its new tower

The museum’s inaugural programming in its new 14-storey wing chronicles and builds on the museum’s 78-year legacy

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