Top 12 exciting architecture projects expected to open in 2026

Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor, the 900-foot-long (274.32-meter) horizontal building (the photo above) spans Wilshire Boulevard and will house LACMA’s highly anticipated David Geffen Galleries, one of the most awaited buildings set to open in 2026. Source: Top 12 exciting architecture projects expected to open… Continue reading

Carlo Ratti on Ensamble Studio’s Can Terra, Menorca

ON A RECENT TRIP to the Spanish island of Menorca, I chose to stay not in a sleek hotel or a whitewashed finca, but in a cave called Can Terra. The choice felt appropriate: The Balearic island is dotted with remnants of the Talayotic civilization, whose settlements took… Continue reading

Studio MAD, the Fenix museum in Rotterdam | Abitare

On a wharf in the port of Rotterdam, the Chinese practice MAD pays homage to the human adventure of migration with the FENIX Museum, a new dynamic and gleaming landmark Source: Studio MAD, the Fenix museum in Rotterdam | Abitare… Continue reading

Taichung’s museum and library complex weaves together art, light and learning

Museumbrary. It’s not a nice word. I think the people behind Taiwan’s hybrid museum and library missed a trick in not using Liseum. But I guess the Athenians got there first, albeit with a different spelling. You might wince at the coinage, but the thing itself is astonishing. Continue reading

The must-see museum openings in 2026 – Apollo Magazine

LACMA, George Lucas’s museum of ‘narrative art’ and a revamped London Museum are just a few of the highlights to look forward to Source: The must-see museum openings in 2026 – Apollo Magazine… Continue reading

New York Showcases the Next Generation of Flood Resiliency – Metropolis

At NYC’s new East River Park, Bjarke Ingels Group has debuted parts of its “BIG U”: an assemblage of green, gray, and social infrastructure. Source: New York Showcases the Next Generation of Flood Resiliency – Metropolis… Continue reading

A museum packed with once banned art is flourishing in the Uzbek desert – The Art Newspaper

Nukus Museum’s vast cache of Russian avant-garde and national folk art is driving cultural tourism. In a corner of Uzbekistan, close to the cracked, muddy crater that was once the Aral Sea, lies an unlikely treasure trove. The I.V. Savitsky State Art Museum of the Republic of… Continue reading

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