Construction of the new Maritime Museum and Science Center started this week in Porsgrunn, Norway. The building, designed by Danish architecture offices COBE and TRANSFORM, conveys Norway’s transformation from a seafaring nation to a modern society based on knowledge industry. The project is…

Earlier this month, we published the winners and finalists of the International School-Museum of Flamenco (ISMOF) competition for the city of Jerez de la Frontera in the Spanish Andalusia region. Among the ten finalists was also the proposal STRUCTURE OF EMOTIONS - FEISTY FLAMCENCO by Polish practice

Ten finalists have been announced in the International School-Museum of Flamenco (ISMOF) competition, with three of them being honorable mentions and another three as the final winners. The jury members Inma E. Maluenda, Juan Roldán Martín, Edgar Gonzalez, Luis Diaz-Mauriño, and Victoria Acebo met a few days ago in Madrid…

The MVRDV and COBE scheme for the transformation of a former concrete factory into a multifunctional creative hub was chosen winner of an international design competition. The master plan proposes an informal transformation of the 45,000m2 site into a dense neighborhood, incl. 8,000m2 existing factory…

OBR Open Building Research, an architectural practice from Genova, Italy, has shared with us the recently completed, and beautifully minimalist, result of the international design competition for the Pythagoras Museum and Gardens in the southern Italian city of Crotone.

The new Museum of Liverpool, designed by Copenhagen-based 3XN, will open its doors to the public next week Tuesday, July 19. The dynamic low-rise structure is the largest National Museum to be built in the UK in over 100 years and is situated on a…

Vancouver-based design and production studio molo has shared with us their project Nebuta House (ねぶたの家 ワ・ラッセ), a museum and center for creative culture in the Northern Japanese city of Aomori. In 2002, molo partners Stephanie Forsythe and Todd MacAllen won an international architecture competition for their design…

Here's another competition entry for the Serlachius Art Museum Gösta extension, this one designed by Amsterdam-based practice XML.

Young, Madrid-based architecture office MACA has shared with us their entry to the international design contest for the extension to the Serlachius Art Museum Gösta in Mänttä, Finland.

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has unveiled the preliminary design for its expansion that will double the museum's exhibition and education space while enhancing the visitor experience and more deeply weaving the museum into the fabric of the city. The new building will both transform…