Building projects
Putting Uruguay on the art map: sculptor Pablo Atchugarry is building a world-class museum in his home country
Billed as Uruguay's most comprehensive hub for international contemporary art, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Atchugarry will open in Punta del Este next January
Museu de Arte de São Paulo plans to tunnel its way through to a new 14-storey building
The Lina Bo Bardi-designed museum in Brazil can currently only display 1% of its 11,000-piece collection
Mies van der Rohe's landmark Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin ready for reopening after 'surgery' by David Chipperfield
Architect's Modernist masterpiece was “incredibly badly built” and took six years and €140m to restore to its former glory
Hide and seek: Hirshhorn museum to cover entire building in a giant painting by Nicolas Party
As the Washington, DC institution begins a renovation project in September, a four-storey-high work will adorn its scaffolding
No luck getting tickets for immersive Van Gogh show? San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum opens with more cutting-edge projections by teamLab
The pandemic-delayed expansion features an interactive exhibition by the Japanese contemporary art collective that was designed to disorient
London's National Gallery appoints architect Annabelle Selldorf for its major renovation
First phase of the work is due to be completed by May 2024, in time for the gallery’s 200th anniversary
Richard Serra steel work to get its own art cabin in the woods at Glenstone
The artist is collaborating with the architect Thomas Phifer to design the new stand-alone gallery
Cinematic revival: Hong Kong's post-war landmark State Theatre to be restored by 2026
Billionaire collector and property developer Adrian Cheng is leading the project to reopen the defunct 1950s cinema as a "cultural oasis"
Frank Gehry on LUMA Arles: ‘I kept thinking about what the light was like for Van Gogh’
The distinguished architect talks about his new structure in France, a tower clad in 11,000 shimmering stainless-steel tiles, influenced by the light, landscape and historic architecture—and Vincent van Gogh
Paris's landmark Hôtel de la Marine opens to visitors—and co-working offices—after four years of restoration
The 550-room palace has undergone a €132m makeover by the Centre des Monuments Nationaux
Home truths: east London's museum of domestic life emerges from lockdown after £18.8m makeover
Museum of the Home reopens on 12 June with double the public space in its 18th-century almshouse buildings
Door still open to Hermitage Barcelona after city council calls for revised project
Ongoing negotiations for a new satellite of the Russian museum will focus on a collaboration with the Barcelona opera house
'Intelligent design': Frank Gehry's surprisingly subtle $233m makeover of Philadelphia Museum of Art revealed
Architect's Core Project expansion creates 90,000 sq. ft of new galleries and reimagined public spaces at heart of 1928 landmark
Australian billionaire’s proposed museum for $380m art collection angers rural community
Planning application for Melbourne businessman Lindsey Hogg’s Rosemaur Gallery has international support but faces local opposition
Greece completes long-awaited National Gallery revamp for Independence Day bicentenary
Greek culture minister promises €59m expansion will put the museum "on the map" ahead of public reopening
After more than a decade, Hong Kong's M+ building is finished and will open in 2021—even if international travel ban persists
Herzog & de Meuron-designed museum will not shy away from displaying controversial works, director assures
Frank Gehry’s twisting tower for Luma Arles to open its doors in June
Patron Maja Hoffmann is driving the ambitious cultural project in southern France
National Gallery London: new details of development plans revealed
A 1960s office block behind the Sainsbury Wing will be demolished to make way for a new building to provide more exhibition space
In Pictures: an early look inside the Frick Madison
Before the public opening on 18 March, see the startling installation of the museum's Old Masters collection in the Brutalist Breuer building
'Building on our strengths': National Gallery London unveils plans for £25m upgrade
Refurbishment, to be partly completed for the museum's 200th anniversary in 2024, will encompass the lobby of the Sainsbury Wing, a new research centre and improved outdoor space
Fast forward: revamped Australian Centre for the Moving Image promises a high-tech experience
The Melbourne museum of screen culture reopens with a contactless device that allows visitors to curate virtual collections
Discoveries at Stonehenge highlight controversial new tunnel's threat to heritage
Recent excavation has uncovered late Neolithic and Bronze Age artefacts and human remains
Exhibitions at new $450m Hong Kong Palace Museum will offer ‘a fresh, contemporary interpretation of Chinese culture’
Director Louis Ng insists that the institution—due to open in 2022—will be distinct from its namesake in Beijing's Forbidden City
An arms dealer casts a shadow over Kunsthaus Zurich
Petition calls for more transparency in planned display of the collection of Emil Georg Bührle, who bought Nazi-looted art with a fortune built on weapons
National Arts Club in New York opens new galleries renovated during the pandemic
Restoration work uncovered the original plaster from the building’s former occupant, New York governor and 1876 presidential candidate Samuel Tilden
Hundreds of artists’ studios in Moscow to be bulldozed amid government’s huge renovation plan
Evicted artists say authorities are leaving them out in the cold by failing to provide alternative workshops
Art Nouveau pioneer Alphonse Mucha’s Slav Epic finds a home at last—and it’s designed by Thomas Heatherwick
Monumental cycle of 20 paintings will be displayed in the Savarin development in central Prague
Champs Élysées—one of Paris’s most polluted roads—to be transformed into ‘extraordinary garden’
The major avenue will undergo a €250m makeover to restore its former splendour, following the 2024 Summer Olympics
India's Supreme Court approves Modi's £2bn 'vanity project' to redevelop Delhi parliament complex
The reconstruction of the Central Vista is a significant step in the prime minister's efforts to sever the nation from its colonial past
Australian museum boom: as most institutions face cuts, National Gallery of Victoria’s massive expansion flies in the face of coronavirus
New NGV Contemporary building is the latest ambitious construction project planned in the country