How Farshid Moussavi’s Ismaili Center handles Houston’s climate
In Texas, Farshid Moussavi Architecture and structural engineer AKT II had to factor in brutal summer sun and hurricane risk in creating the cultural centre’s stunning stone-and-glass exterior Source: How Farshid Moussavi’s Ismaili Center handles Houston’s climate… Continue reading
Whispers of Air: SANAA embraces lightness and transparency in the Taichung Art Museum
Designed by Japanese architecture firm SANAA, the museum was officially opened on Saturday, December 13, 2025, that was attended by dignitaries, museum directors, curators, and artists who traveled from all over the city. It is Taiwan’s first location to combine the city’s major library with a metropolitan art museum,… Continue reading
New culture hub combining an art museum and a library opens in Taiwan – Wanderlust
A new cultural space combining an art museum and a public library has just opened in Taiwan‘s second largest city. Taichung Green Museumbrary, which has been designed as ‘a library in a park and an art museum in a forest’, is found within the city’s 67-hectare Central Park. Designed… Continue reading
Taichung Green Museumbrary – SANAA | Arquitectura Viva
The Green Museumbrary in Taichung, Taiwan’s second largest city, has officially opened. Designed by the Japanese firm SANAA – Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa – in collaboration with the local firm Ricky Liu & associates, it puts two traditionally separated concepts – art museum and public library –… Continue reading
‘Getting lost is good’: skybridge and floating stairs bring fun and thrills to mighty new Taiwan museum | Art and design | The Guardian
With its soaring ceilings, meandering pathways and mesh-like walls, Taichung Art Museum, designed by Sanaa, sweeps visitors from library to gallery to rooftop garden for rousing views Source: ‘Getting lost is good’: skybridge and floating stairs bring fun and thrills to mighty new Taiwan museum | Art… Continue reading
Taichung’s new ‘Museumbrary’ expands Taiwan’s culture credentials – The Art Newspaper – International art news and events
A new art museum fused with a library is scheduled to open tomorrow in Taichung, the biggest city in inland Taiwan, in a building designed by the prize-winning Japanese architecture practice SANAA.Known as the Taichung Green Museumbrary, the pairing is an ensemble of airy white boxes of varying… Continue reading
Taiwan’s Groundbreaking New Cultural Landmark, Taichung Green Museumbrary opens, with Major Exhibition with over 70 Artists from 20 Nations. – FAD Magazine
Considered Taiwan’s most important cultural development of 2025, Taichung Green Museumbrary, located in Taiwan’s second largest city, Taichung, will officially open to the public tomorrow, Saturday 13th December 2025. The new international cultural destination is Taiwan’s first venue to integrate a metropolitan art museum with the city’s central library… Continue reading
Taichung Art Museum opens a landmark “museumbrary” and a visionary exhibition for a changing world – hube magazine
The long-awaited Taichung Art Museum opens on December 13th, 2025, unveiling Taiwan’s first-ever hybrid museum-and-library complex—a bold cultural gesture shaped by SANAA architecture and conceived as a fluid meeting point between art, knowledge, and nature. Its debut exhibition, A Call of All Beings: See you tomorrow, same time,… Continue reading
Who are Max Rocha, Cig Harvey, Franco Pepe, and Iwan Baan giftng their – Phaidon
As final shipping dates loom, here is our final author gifting story, which we hope will lend you a guiding hand when it comes to buying the loved ones in your life that special gift. And, if you’re reading this, you know that books are special. Whether it be… Continue reading
Houston’s New Ismaili Center Is a Stunning Cultural Wonder That’s Open To All — Inside a United States First
stunning new addition to Houston’s cultural landscape is set to open to the public this Saturday, December 13 — the double-decades-in-the-making Ismaili Center, a grand architectural project led by the late Prince Karim Aga Khan IV (1936 to 2025). The center is coming to life under the leadership… Continue reading
Legendary Architect Frank Gehry Dies at 96
Frank Gehry, the Canadian-American architect, passed away at the age of 96 in Santa Monica, California, on Friday, after a brief respiratory illness. Source: Legendary Architect Frank Gehry Dies at 96 – ArchiSHOTS – ArchitectureLive!… Continue reading
Five Art and Design Books for Your Winter Reading List
Vitra: The Anatomy of a Design Company, by Deyan Sudjic, with contributions from Karen Stein and Iwan BaanThere are several design companies with an enduring impact on the industry, but we rarely hear all of their origin stories. This volume provides readers with just that by telling the tale of… Continue reading