Located in Beijing, China, National Museum of China Expansion was designed by RTKL, a global architecture and engineering practice, headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland has won an international competition to expand the National Art Museum in China. The Museum, which was completed in 1962 as one of ten buildings commissioned for the commemoration of the ten-year anniversary of the Founding of the People’s...
The National Portrait Gallery, Designed by JPW located in Canberra’s, Australia Parliamentary Triangle and provides exhibition space for 500 portraits in a simple configuration of day-lit galleries. The building responds to its site by connecting key vistas, levels and alignments around the precinct. Five fingers of space, arranged perpendicular to the land axis, refer to Walter Burley Griffin’s...
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute designed by Gensler, located in Williamstown, United States, a public art museum and a center for research and higher education, has embarked on a two-phase campus plan. Integrated into the pastoral setting, the design includes extensive landscaping, scenic trails, and new buildings that expand the Institute’s galleries and facilities for public and academic...
Art Institute of Chicago Modern Wing that located in Chicago, United States, was designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop. The opening of the Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago is being celebrated today as the culmination of an enormous community effort. The 264,000 sq ft, Renzo Piano-designed addition is the largest expansion in the museum’s history and increases the museum’s size to...
The Art Gallery of Alberta designed by Randall Stout Architects is located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The gallery was founded in 1924 with the aim of promoting the knowledge, enjoyment and cultivation of the fine arts and to preserve historical relics. In its almost 90 year history the gallery has proved so successful that its collection has ballooned to unmanageable proportions. An extension twenty...