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Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk

Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk is an architectural Competition to design of the building to house the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, intended to become a new identity landmark of the City of Gdańsk, and the conceptual site landscape design commensurate with the nature, status, and location of the [...]

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Old Factory becomes Latvian Contemporary Art Museum

The former soviet states are littered with half-finished buildings and projects cut short by the collapse of the Soviet Union. High schools, factories, apartment complexes: some of the buildings stand abandoned for years, stripped of their valuables and left bare to the elements. In some scenarios, they at least become playgrounds for explorers and artists. [...]

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M. H. de Young Memorial Museum

The M.H. de Young Museum (commonly called de Young Museum) is a fine arts museum located in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. It is named for early San Francisco newspaperman M. H. de Young. History The museum opened in 1895 as an outgrowth of the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894 (a fair modeled on [...]

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Museum of the North, University of Alaska

Inspired by the rugged landscape, Joan Soranno leads a team to expand the University of Alaska’s Museum of THE North in Fairbanks. Fairbanks sits on a vast plateau near the center of Alaska, about 125 miles south of the Arctic Circle. The century-old city is surrounded by mostly roadless wilderness where fox dodge wolves and [...]

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UA Museum of the North wins architecture award

FAIRBANKS — The University of Alaska Museum of the North has won its third architecture award. It was named one of 66 winners of the 2008 American Architecture Awards by the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd. Incoming search [...]

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