The museums, which opened in 2014, are the result of long-term cooperation of the best architects, designers and artists. Thanks to them, the world is richer for quite a few exceptional cultural junctions from this year onward, and the Designboom portal has chosen 10 of those that are true excesses - especially in the architectural sense.
1. City of Culture, Milan
Project of the architectural office David Chipperfield Architects has been in the works since 2000. During this time, the buildings in the former industrial area of Milan were transformed into an urban museum center, where curved glass and several interconnected rectangular buildings co-create a space in which there is a center of non-European cultures.
2. Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Interesting architecture Frank Ghery, which resembles the white sails of sailing ships, has been open since this year in the Bois de Boulogne park in Paris after six years of construction. In addition to the permanent exhibition of modern art, the museum also hosts various traveling exhibitions.
3. Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
Architect Shigeru Ban designed an extension of the art museum in a well-known ski center and by combining the use of glass and wood achieved that the whole works in contact with the surroundings. Inside, thanks to the glass walls, the view of the snow-capped mountain peaks is always open to us.
4. National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion, New York
Snohett architectural office, who undertook the construction of the museum, designed the museum as the only building on the otherwise spacious square. In its short existence, the museum has already attracted a huge number of visitors from all over the world and functions as a memorial to the tragic events that took place on 9/11.
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5. Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Famous Italian architect Renzo Piano undertook the renovation of the art galleries by connecting the three museum buildings around the courtyard more closely. The museum, in which the works of Mark Rothko are currently exhibited, is a building from the 1920s, which has now been supplemented with a modern glass roof.
6. Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai
This year, Shanghai got another Long Museum building on the banks of the Huangpu River. The concrete entity he designed bureau Atelier Deshaus, offers as many as four huge floors of gallery spaces – 2 above and 2 below ground – a total of 16,000 square meters.
7. Osulloc Tea Museum, Jeju Island, South Korea
The beautiful museum was designed by a Korean bureau under the direction of Minsuk Cho, who received the Golden Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale this year Mass Studies. The museum is located in the middle of tea plantations surrounded by forest, so the building, which breathes with its surroundings both in content and form, is a real feast for the eyes.
8. Panama Biomuseo, Panama
Another architect's project this year Frank Ghery is located along the Panama Canal, and under its colorful roofs there is 4,000 square meters of space for 8 permanent exhibitions, which are prepared in collaboration with scientists from the nearby Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and which show the diversity of species in the area around the Panama Canal.
9. Aga Khan Museum, Toronto
Canada's museum, which resembles a white granite temple, was created as the fruit of cross-cultural cooperation: it was designed by the Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, the Canadian collaborated with him bureau of Moriyama & Teshima, and various artefacts of Islamic culture are on display in it.
10. Asia Museum of Modern Art, Taichung, Taiwan
The building was designed by a renowned Japanese architect Tadao Ando, and the whole looks quite original, as it consists of three triangular buildings, which are placed one above the other in a varied manner. The city of Taichung thus gained not only a new cultural center, but also a new architectural landmark.
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