Building projects
Orlando chooses its memorial to Pulse shooting victims
More than three years after the massacre, a winning design has been selected for a $45m museum and memorial campus, but some survivors and victims’ families would rather it stay unbuilt.
As protests rage in Iraq, experts say culture is key to long-term reconstruction
Iraqi culture ministry announces new national museum in Baghdad as Mosul restoration plan is extended to historic churches
Ragnar Kjartansson re-creates US soap opera for vast GES-2 culture complex opening in Moscow
GES-2 complex is located in a former power plant, built in 1907, located near the Kremlin
MoMA special: our verdict on the museum opening of the year
We speak to two of the museum's curators leading the expansion and our New York team sit down to discuss the highs and lows of the new space. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
Centre Pompidou to expand and move collections to new satellite venue in southern Paris
The “art factory” will be a conservation, exhibition and storage space and is expected to open in 2025
Paris Museum of Modern Art unveils €10m revamp of Art Deco home
Redesign by h2o architectes opens up 1930s building—with monumental murals by Matisse and Dufy—to disabled visitors
Cultural figures rally to save Reading Prison—where Oscar Wilde was once incarcerated—as it goes up for sale
Locals hope to prevent historic site "being gutted and turned into luxury flats" as building is put on the market
Centre Pompidou’s satellite space in Shanghai to open early November
New offshoot joins Málaga and Brussels in French museum’s burgeoning international network
Peabody Essex Museum's $125m expansion includes new displays shaped by its neuroscience research
Institution in Salem, Massachusetts, opens new wing to display maritime and Asian art collection
Making the Art Institute of Chicago a more inclusive place is about more than just architecture
The museum’s director James Rondeau on why the institution is bringing Barcelona architects Barozzi Veiga on board to rethink the whole campus
Oakland’s ‘museum of the people’ launches $85m capital campaign
Renovation aims to reflect the demographic diversity of the birthplace of the Black Panthers
Construction on Notre Dame pushed back to 19 August as steps taken to decontaminate site from lead
Construction had been expected to start a week earlier, but new safety measures for the protection of workers are still being tested
Hungary presses ahead with sprawling culture hub in Budapest city park
Vast collections centre for 300,000 objects inaugurated as construction continues on ambitious museums quarter for Hungarian capital
Bordeaux gets €60m Meca for creative industries
Bjarke Ingels-designed culture hub will be the new home of the Frac regional contemporary art centre
New Museum unveils Rem Koolhaas design for addition
Building to rise next door that will double the museum’s exhibition space
LACMA is building an institution for the 21st century
Museums were never “encyclopaedic”—nor should they be, Michael Conforti says
State Russian Museum refurbishment cancelled amid protests
The renovation threatened the museum's architecture and collection, plaintiffs argued
Could a parking garage hold up Lacma’s new Zumthor building?
A local group has sued Los Angeles County over the plan’s environmental impact report
Lacma’s $650m plan won’t wash
Community lawsuit brings welcome last stand against museum’s alarmingly secretive project
Dia:Chelsea to begin revamp this month for fall 2020 reopening
The project, announced last year, is part of the Dia Art Foundation’s $90m multi-venue initiative
London’s Warburg Institute launches £14.5m expansion to revive the 'science of culture'
Research centre based on the library of German art historian Aby Warburg plans to open new public spaces in 2022
A train wreck in slow motion? Why Lacma’s new building is an impending disaster
County officials prepare to vote on the $650m project this week, but the museum’s next incarnation could come at too high a cost for culture
Jean Nouvel: 'desert rose' Qatar museum blooms against the odds
We speak to the French architect about the search for a national landmark and the hurdles that faced the mammoth project
Ninety years on, MoMA rediscovers its radical soul
New York museum's rotating rehang will emphasise diverse permanent collection to celebrate the “pluriverse” of art
Milton Keynes gallery expansion wants to ‘make people think again’
MK Gallery's new £12m building is inspired by utopian 1970s heyday of England’s maligned New Town
Miami’s Art Center/South Florida gets a new facility—and a new name
Oolite Arts is due to move from Miami Beach to a purpose-built space on the mainland
National Museum of Scotland completes 15-year makeover revealing 'whole world under one roof'
The £80m masterplan has created 50% more public space and unveiled 6,500 forgotten objects
New York's MoMA to close for four months for renovation
Rethinking the Modernist canon, New York museum is changing the presentation of its permanent collection
Grand opening of Russian billionaire’s power-plant museum is postponed to 2020
GES-2 will be part of Moscow's Museum Mile, linked to Garage, the Tretyakov and the Pushkin
Beirut Museum of Art vows to carry on as honorary chairman Carlos Ghosn remains in jail
Museum board says fundraising campaign to build delayed private museum is not dependent on the scandal-hit auto executive