Museums & galleries

Buildings built to hold and display.

10 entries

Extreme close-up of the Ningbo History Museum's 'wa pan' masonry wall, showing salvaged grey bricks, terracotta tiles, and stone fragments.

Biophilic & Wellness

Ningbo History Museum: The Tactile Memory of Found Walls

The Ningbo History Museum, designed by Wang Shu, embodies a unique architectural approach through its use of salvaged materials and traditional construction techniques.

30 Sept 2026

Courtyard with old brick and stucco building left, modern concrete and glass building right, under a clear sky.

Visual Essay

Northern Italy: Three Adaptive Journeys Through Art and Architecture

Discover three significant adaptive reuse projects in Northern Italy: Carlo Scarpa's Castelvecchio, Fondazione Prada, and Gallerie d'Italia.

21 Sept 2026

Concrete ramp leading to a glass wall overlooking a lake, with an ancient stone wall on the right under a skylight at Sverre

Architecture Travel

Sverre Fehn's Hedmark Museum: New Concrete Laid into a Medieval Ruin

Sverre Fehn’s Hedmark Museum in Hamar, Norway, demonstrates how new architectural elements can engage with ancient ruins, creating a dialogue between eras.

20 Sept 2026

Modern building with concrete overhang and brick facade featuring perforated patterns, viewed from below against a clear sky.

Future Living

Kolumba Museum: Tactility and Light within a Ruin

The Kolumba Museum in Cologne, designed by Peter Zumthor, demonstrates a profound engagement with history and material. Its perforated brick facade envelops a bombed church ruin, orchestrating a unique dialogue between old and new.

15 Sept 2026

Concrete modernist house with green roof and planted terraces, viewed from a stone wall foreground.

Light & Atmosphere

Fondation Maeght: Concrete Sails for Light and Art

Explore the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, a 1964 masterwork by Josep Lluís Sert where architecture and art converge, illuminated by strategically captured natural light.

4 Sept 2026

An open timber door with brass hinges framed by rough stone blocks, leading to a dark wood floor interior.

Landmark Stories

Northern Italian Adaptive Reuse: Three Architectural Destinations

A curated guide to three significant adaptive reuse projects in Northern Italy, spanning Verona and Milan, showcasing thoughtful interventions.

1 Sept 2026

Long, narrow interior hallway with textured red concrete walls, wooden built-ins, a glass door, and a vibrant pink partition

Stories of Place

Museum of Modern Literature: Choreographing Darkness and Light

The Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach am Neckar, designed by David Chipperfield Architects, carefully manages daylight

26 Aug 2026

White stucco walls with rectangular cut-outs for windows and doorways, and light grey marble tile flooring, seen from a patio

Materials & Makers

The Sturehof Gallery: Romanesque Modularity and Sensory Design

The Sturehof Gallery in Stockholm offers a contemporary reinterpretation of Romanesque architecture, blending modular construction with an emphasis on neuro-architectural principles to influence visitor experience.

5 Aug 2026

Modern building facade with patinated zinc panels, dark blue brick, and vertical windows, viewed at dusk from ground level.

Living Typologies

Patinated Zinc: London Gallery and the Climate Cost of Craft

Exploring the critical regionalist application of patinated zinc standing-seseam roofing on a London art gallery, focusing on its material lifecycle and embodied carbon implications.

1 Aug 2026

Black timber-paneled window looking out to dark concrete buildings against a twilight sky in Scholarly Cellars New York.

Material Notes

Scholarly Cellars: A New York Archive and its Patinated Zinc Veil

This piece examines a specific subterranean wine archive in New York, focusing on its Postmodern design, the use of patinated zinc, and its precise natural lighting strategy.

23 Jul 2026

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