Thomas Phifer adds reflective white wing to Corning Museum of Glass in New York
New York architect Thomas Phifer has designed a building featuring an opaque glass exterior for one of the world's most important glass museums (+ slideshow). More
New York architect Thomas Phifer has designed a building featuring an opaque glass exterior for one of the world's most important glass museums (+ slideshow). More
Ole Scheeren's architecture firm has unveiled a new headquarters for China's oldest art auction house, which is now under construction just two blocks away from Beijing's Forbidden City (+ slideshow). More
Tiny Shoreditch gallery Kemistry is rebranding itself as the UK's first public institution dedicated to graphic design, and is staging a retrospective exhibition as part of its funding bid. More
An oval museum filled with robots and other technological inventions has been scheduled for construction in Dubai (+ movie). More
An old house perched at the foot of the Swiss Alps has been converted into a gallery to exhibit the work of a local artist. More
News: a competition will be launched next week to design a new Bauhaus Museum in Dessau, where the famous German art and design school was based between 1925 and 1932. More
News: SO-IL and FREAKS freearchitects have together won a competition to redesign a glass museum, workshop and gallery on the site of an 18th-century glass factory in north-east France. More
News: Herzog & de Meuron has revealed the latest images of its design for M+, the new museum of visual culture that recently broke ground in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District (+ slideshow). More
News: Foster + Partners has unveiled its design for a new National Museum of Marine Science and Technology in northern Taiwan, which has now begun construction. More
Menos é Mais Arquitectos and João Mendes Ribeiro slotted both light and dark structures among the stone buildings of an old warehouse complex to create this arts centre – one of 40 projects now on the shortlist for the Mies van der Rohe Award. More
News: construction is now underway on M+, a new museum of visual culture in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District designed by Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron. More
The Whitworth gallery in Manchester has reopened following an extensive renovation by London architecture studio MUMA that included the addition of two new glass and brick gallery wings (+ slideshow). More
Each facet that makes up the facade of this community building in Poland by OVO Grabczewscy Architekci is covered in a sheet of shiny ridged copper to create the impression of flames (+ slideshow). More
News: the cost to build a new outpost of the V&A museum in Dundee, Scotland, has almost doubled to the sum of £80 million – a figure that architect Kengo Kuma has claimed is "surprisingly high" (+ movie). More
News: construction has started on a vast arts complex designed by Ateliers Jean Nouvel for Qingdao, China, featuring a museum, artists' studios and a marina. More
News: Steven Holl has been appointed to rework the campus of Houston's Museum of Fine Arts and will add new buildings to offer a "complementary contrast" to structures by Mies van der Rohe and Rafael Moneo. More
News: Ole Bouman, former head of the Netherlands Architecture Institute, has been named as the director of a major new design museum developed in collaboration with the V&A in Shekou, Shenzhen. More
Austrian studio Coop Himmelb(l)au has completed a faceted steel and angular glass building to house a natural history museum in Lyon, France (+ slideshow). More
News: Sou Fujimoto is one of three architects that have been selected to design buildings for a Hungarian museum complex in Budapest's City Park (+ slideshow). More
An aluminium and glass box sits over a long stone wall to form the facade of this mining heritage centre in the French village of Banca, by Toulouse studio V2S (+ slideshow). More