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Remote Antarctica research base now houses a striking new art installation
In Antarctica, Kyiv-based architecture studio Balbek Bureau has unveiled ‘Home. Memories’, a poignant art installation at the remote, penguin-inhabited Vernadsky Research Base
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Michael Maltzan lightens the mood in Houston with his first brick project
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Hiroshi Sugimoto retraces one of the earliest encounters between Japan and the West
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Progress gathers pace on Mecanoo’s Wei-Wu-Ying Centre for the Arts
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Boot manufacturer transforms into Edinburgh print-making studio
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Sam Jacob Studio to design the new Cartoon Museum in London
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Born again: Gaudí’s meticulously restored Casa Vicens reopens in Barcelona
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Loan ranger: Caen's public library by OMA to complete in 2017
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A new art initiative sets out to explore Oslo’s architectural tapestry
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Elizabeth de Portzamparc embeds a museum into the historic centre of Nîmes
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Murado & Elvira reimagines a 17th-century library on the west coast of Spain
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Johnston Marklee orchestrates a smooth redesign of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
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The Kai Art Center opens in a renovated submarine factory in Tallinn
Tallinn-based KAOS Architects leads a sensitive restoration of an avant garde industrial building by the sea for the new Kai Art Center. Once a submarine-making warehouse for the Russian Tsar, the concrete building with 6m ceiling heights and gracefully arching roof was an ideal spot for the previously nomadic contemporary arts organisation.
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David Adjaye’s Spyscape museum opens in New York
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China’s first contemporary photography museum is putting local artists in focus
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Screen idol: Hiroshi Sugimoto’s serene series of theatres is worth looking up to
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Eduardo Chillida’s Basque museum and sculpture park given a new lease of life
In life, the sculptor never gained the profile he deserved. Now, as Chillida Leku in his former home near Hernani finally reopens with the help of Hauser & Wirth, it’s time to reappraise the work of an artist capable of defying gravity and creating a space for peace
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Art and architecture converge at the Saarland Museum’s new extension
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Bauhaus Museum Dessau opens in Germany
Addenda architects has designed a simple glass box for the second largest collection of Bauhaus objects in the world – bringing much needed climate-controlled and flexible space to the city of Dessau, where the Bauhaus School building designed by Walter Gropius, opened in 1926, is located
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Striking footbridge reconnects Tintagel Castle to the Cornish cliffs
Separated over 500 years ago by a dramatic gorge, Tintagel Castle has been reconnected to the mainland with a red steel footbridge. Paved with slate and quartzite tiles, it slices through the Cornish coastal landscape, unexpectedly – yet successfully – connecting history and legend to the present
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Memphis inspires maximalist exhibition space in Hangzhou
PIG Design creates a fun, Memphis Group-inspired experience in this new private exhibition space in Hangzhou, China
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Antwerp Royal Museum of Fine Arts reveals minimalist makeover
Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp (KMSKA) has just revealed its renovation, extension and new minimalist rooms by Dutch architecture office KAAN Architecten
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Light fantastic: the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts' new pavilion is a cultural beacon
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Togo arts centre reopens with show that honours the West African country’s capital
After five months of closure, the Togo arts centre Palais de Lomé – recently redesigned by Archipat, Segond-Guyon and Sara Consult – announces plans to reopen ahead of an architecture and urban planning exhibition launch in late September
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Less is Moor: the Yves Saint Laurent Museum is set to be a lesson in restrained elegance
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Daniel Libeskind’s MO Museum opens in Vilnius, Lithuania
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Renzo Piano’s V-A-C Foundation art gallery in Moscow takes shape
