Museum architecture
British Museum on the hunt for 'visionary' design team to help transform space
The institution launches competition to find an architectural firm that can transform its Bloomsbury site
'Like a miniature city': Swiss architects reveal design for Qatar's new Lusail Museum
New institution is next phase in state’s mega museum masterplan
An invisible €171m renovation: Dutch royal palace reopens after five-year-long underground project
Designed as a royal hunting lodge in 1686, Het Loo has been transformed with a vast new entrance hall and multiple exhibition spaces hidden beneath the courtyard
Paris's Centre Pompidou to shut for five years as part of major renovation project
The institution will be closed for its own 50th anniversary—but will work with the city's museums, including the Louvre, to stage projects during the period
London's National Gallery revamp row: is it a sensitive makeover or like 'an airport lounge'?
Plus, contemporary art in Lagos and Chagall's falling angel
We, the original donors, entirely accept the suggested changes to the National Gallery's Sainsbury Wing
Timothy Sainsbury says he disagrees with the view that all of the functional parts of the building should be "preserved in aspic"
National Gallery renovation plans contested—while Britain appoints new leader uncontested
In the letter for our November issue, editor Alison Cole reflects on the tumultuous times of two London institutions
'National Gallery's plans will create an entrance fit for today’s public' says London museum's director
Gabriele Finaldi responds to criticism over the gallery's proposed redesign for the Sainsbury Wing
My plea to London’s National Gallery to scrap its £35m Sainsbury Wing new entrance plans
Architecture critic Hugh Pearman argues that the gallery is making irreversible changes to a Grade I listed building—while removing most of its early Renaissance collection from display until 2025
With new $94m building, the Orange County Museum of Art gets its own version of the Met museum steps
Fourteen years in the making, the new 53,000 sq. ft building designed by Thom Mayne of architecture firm Morphosis features a wide outdoor staircase intended to serve as a gathering place
Smithsonian reveals shortlisted designs for $130m Bezos Learning Center at National Air and Space Museum
The institution is welcoming public feedback on proposals from five anonymous architecture firms bidding for the project on the National Mall
Top New York architect dropped midway through Hermitage Museum’s Moscow expansion project
Hani Rashid says he was ghosted by the Moscow city government
Mies van der Rohe's landmark Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin ready for reopening after 'surgery' by David Chipperfield
Architect's Modernist masterpiece was “incredibly badly built” and took six years and €140m to restore to its former glory
Space race: how the pandemic is pushing museums to rethink design
Experts predict bigger galleries, a stronger connection to the outdoors and an end to the expansion juggernaut
Adrian Ellis on Tate's expansion: the definition of success
After a decade of acclaim, will its triumph be topped by Tate Modern 2?
MoMA tower to loom over Manhattan
Concerns over Jean Nouvel skyscraper, to house museum extension in its base
Tate Modern gets £50m towards new extension from the government
The generous contribution is the highest made to a cultural project in 10 years
Tate expansion by Herzog & de Meuron secures $100m from British state
Swiss duo stake claim to be the art world’s favourite architects
Slower than planned, Tate Modern’s expansion starts in the basement
Only part of the project will be completed by next summer, with a lack of funds hampering progress
Ziggurat extension for Tate
Designed by Herzog & de Meuron, this addition to the museum will provide much needed exhibition space
MoMA reborn with newly expanded building
Taniguchi's addition to the institution has substantially increased the floor space - and the admission prices
The new Imperial War Museum North is a failure—as a museum
Our reporter visits Daniel Libeskind’s latest building in Manchester
Ronald de Leeuw’s Dutch history lesson
The director of the Rijksmuseum is turning the famous museum into an artistic journey through Dutch history, and combining fine and decorative arts
In my opinion. V&A Libeskind too “metaphorical”
A former keeper offers some practical suggestions
MoMA has chosen three finalists for its renovation project
Bernard Tschumi, Yoshio Taniguchi, and a team of Jacques Herzog and Pierre do Meuron are in the running
Who gets to build MoMA’s expansion?
As disgruntled museum staff strike, America’s most famous museum of modern art is trawling world-wide for a new architect