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Michael Maltzan’s Hammer Museum and the Anti-Bilbao Effect

Michael Maltzan’s gradual renovation of a Los Angeles art museum points the way to cultural architecture that engages with its context rather than focusing on flash.

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Re-Imagined Municipal Museum of Weert, Netherlands Blends Old and New

With a new golden skin, the Museum W re-opens with an exhibition by designer Job Smeets.

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The Largest Art Museum in Norway Is Now Open

Designed by Kleihues + Schuwerk Architects, the National Museum of Art, Architecture, and Design opened this month after eight years in the making.

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Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie Reopens with an Alexander Calder Exhibition

After being closed for six and a half years for a renovation by David Chipperfield Architects, the Berlin museum reopened Sunday, August 22.

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100 Years After the Tulsa Race Massacre, the Story of Greenwood Continues

Opening on August 4, the Greenwood Rising Black Wall Street History Center attempts to tell the full story of Oklahoma's Black Wall Street.

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The Manchester Jewish Museum Celebrates Identity and Commonality

With a focus on guest experience, Citizens Design Bureau's addition and renovation elevates the museum’s ethos.

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Wright & Wright Expands London’s Museum of the Home, Set in a Historic Complex of Almshouses

Dedicated to the history of domestic life, the expanded museum makes the most of its centuries-old digs and includes two small new volumes.

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Site-Specific “Art Environments” Find a Home at Wisconsin’s Art Preserve

To design the Art Preserve at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, artist-run firm Trés Birds explored its natural setting and offbeat art collection.

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The Baker Museum Receives a Climate Resilient Renovation by Weiss/Manfredi

In its expansion of a revered museum, Weiss/Manfredi followed precepts dictated by context, climate, and the artworks located inside and out.

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Boasting New Exhibitions and a Renovation, the National Building Museum Reopens Today

New displays include a showcase of MASS Design Group's socially-oriented work and the Gun Violence Memorial Project.

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Herzog & de Meuron Completes the Colossal M+ Museum in Hong Kong

The building’s T-shaped profile is made up of intersecting vertical and horizontal volumes that will hold a mix of public galleries and private offices.

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A Jewelry Exhibition in Antwerp Channels Space Age Aesthetics

Designed by Amsterdam-based architecture firm Beyond Space, the scenography for The Jeweler’s Art: Revolutionary Jewelry from the 1960s & 1970s captures the aesthetic and cultural zeitgeist of the era.

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SOM Designs a Citadel for the National Museum of the US Army

A steel-armored set of glistening pavilions combines to form a unified museum for the nation’s oldest military branch.

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A New Building Opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Designed by Steven Holl Architects, the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building completes a decade-long campus redevelopment project.

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In Rotterdam, MVRDV Recasts the Archive as Museum

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen will put 151,000 works—its entire collection—on public display in a new salad bowl–like structure.