10 museums and cultural architecture projects to look forward to in 2023

National Library of Israel by Herzog & de Meuron - © Herzog & de Meuron.

A cavernous museum in New York City, a terraced campus in the heart of Jerusalem, and a culture park with giant pebble-shaped buildings in Shenzen are among the best museums and cultural venues opening in 2023.

AERODREAM, the incredible history of inflatable architecture and design

Bubble x Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

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.

24 architectural museums and cultural venues to look forward in 2021: from Tutankhamen to Aviici!

Wormhole library by MAD Architects - Rendering by SAN.

Discover 24 architectural museums opening in 2021: from Kengo Kuma’s Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Denmark to Jean Nouvel’s Pudong Museum of Art in Shanghai, the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza and the Aviici Experience in Stockholm.

2020 Best Architecture: 12 great stories from Dubai to the Arctic

Asif Khan's ethereal portals for Expo 2020 Dubai - Photo by Helene Binet, courtesy of Asif Khan design studio.

2020 Best Architecture: an Arctic whale watching facility, a pitched-roof garden house in Beverly Hills and a sustainable micro-library in Indonesia are among our favourite architectures of the year.

2019 Best architecture: twisting bridges, Bauhaus and desert roses

Zaha Hadid Architects' Beijing Daxing Int Airport - Photo by ©Hufton+Crow.

2019 Best Architecture. Zaha Hadid Architects’ giant starfish-shaped airport in Beijing and Thomas Heatherwick’s architectural sculpture in New York, but also a former locomotive hangar turned into an indoor urban plaza and an inclusive LGBT Center in L.A. are among our favourite architectures of the year.

OMA’s Axel Springer media campus near complexion in Berlin

OMA's Axel Springer Campus - Photo by Niels Koenning - Courtesy of OMA.

Digital technologies are shaping the way we read the news as well as the spaces where the news are written. Rem Koolhaas’ OMA has almost completed the media campus for the publishing company Axel Springer; the building reflects the sector’s print-digital transition and aims to “absorb the question marks of the digital future”.

Night Fever – Designing Club Culture 1960-Today: Vitra design Museum explores the relationship between club culture and design

"Night Fever. Designing Club Culture 1960 – Today" © Vitra Design Museum, photo: Mark Niedermann.

From Studio 54 to Berghain and Rem Koolhaas’ shape-shifting proposal for London Ministry of Sound II. The “Night Fever” exhibition at Vitra design Museum explores the history of nightclubs through interior design, architecture, new media and alternative lifestyles.

7 cultural architectures to look forward in 2018

Qatar National Museum - Photo by @aeadesigns via IG.

A concrete cliff shaped like a vessel and a desert rose inspired architecture but also a grand museum by the Giza pyramids and a musical tower remembering 9.11 heroes… 7 cultural architectures inaugurating in 2018.