From the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona to Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Abu Dhabi and MAD Architects’ Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in L.A., 2026 promises iconic architecture that sparks imagination and celebrates culture worldwide.
Check out our guide to Miami Art Week 2025 – from Art Basel to Design Miami and beyond. Discover whimsical animal-shaped benches, introvert chairs, rotating libraries, resilient Ukrainian creatures, and more.
Under the theme SHIFT, the Chicago Architecture Biennial 2025 reflects on architecture’s capacity to respond to global challenges.
Part espresso bar, part laboratory, the Canal Café project by Diller Scofidio + Renfro won the Golden Lion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.
From Sou Fujimoto’s masterplan for Expo 2025 Osaka to Frank O. Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Abu Dhabi. These stunning cultural venues will also celebrate Harlem’s black heritage, Chinese Opera and David Bowie.
The AERODREAM exhibition at the Centre Pompidou-Metz showcases the inflatable work of architects, artists and designers who found alternatives to postwar rationalism ‘within a bubble.’ From the pop icon ‘Blow’ chair to Buckminster Fuller’s ‘Biosphere’ and the inflatable concert hall by Arata Isozaki and Anish Kapoor.
From Herzog & de Meuron’s M+ in Hong Kong to Jean Nouvel’s desert rose-inspired Qatar National Museum but also Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s expandable art centre on New York’s Highline and Dessau Bauhaus museum celebrating the centenary anniversary of the iconic architecture movement. 8 cultural architectures worthy a trip in 2019!
Zaryadye Park, Moscow’s first major new park in 50 years, features a “floating bridge” stretching over the city’s river and areas celebrating the natural landscapes and climates of Russia.
Illuminated River: beams of light shooting in the sky and tidal luminous symphonies tuning London with the rhythm of Nature, river powered world lamp-posts emerging from water and more… International architects and artists propose permanent installations for the Thames.
