As part of the ‘Green Architecture for the Future’ exhibition (on show until Dec. 18th), the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art invited the Danish architecture firm 3XN to design a pavilion demonstrating cutting edge possibilities with sustainable and intelligent materials. The result is a Moebius strip made of cork and bio-resin that features self-cleaning surfaces, phase changing materials and built-in sensors that generate energy from the footsteps of the visitors.

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The town of Herning in Jutland may be known to art lovers, but until recently this centre of the Danish textile industry was lacking in sophisticated contemporary architecture. The recently opened museum building by Steven Holl Architects changes all that.

Sustainable product design and a hint of the exotic are combined in the new exhibition entitled "Design for a Living World" in the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum in New York. Ten internationally known designers were asked by the curators to develop some thoughts on unusual materials and the places from where they originate.

Work has started this month on the new Louisiana State Sports Hall of Fame and Regional History Museum in Natchitoches. The 12 million Dollar project will house the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame with a collection of memorabilia donated by more than 250 outstanding sports figures in Louisiana.

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art invited the Danish architecture firm 3XN to design a pavilion demonstrating cutting edge possibilities within sustainable and intelligent materials. The result is a pavilion that is built of bio composites with integrated intelligence that creates a dynamic interaction with its physical surroundings and its users.

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The Netherlands’ first graphic design museum was opened last year in the rebuilt and extended premises of the De Beyerd Museum in the centre of Breda. Hidden behind a listed gatehouse dating from the 17th century, the new building encloses a courtyard on three sides.

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Additional pictures of the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart by Delugan Meissl Associates.

The new Porsche Museum in Stuttgart Zuffenhausen will open on Saturday 31 January 2009. Finally, now that the scaffolding has been removed, it is possible to see the architecture of Delugan Meissl. Inside the building the majority of approximately 80 exhibits are already in place.

With his Museum of Natural History in San Fransisco’s Golden Gate Park Renzo Piano has successfully united the twelve different buildings of the California Academy of Sciences, constructed between 1916 and 1991, under one single, gigantic, green roof. In September 2008 the museum complex was opened.

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There you find an interview by David Adjaye about the museum in denver.

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Time-lapse clip of the New Museum’s construction.

The second phase of the Darwin Centre at London’s Natural History Museum has been unveiled in early September. The eight-storey extension houses a giant cocoon structure within a glass atrium "both symbolically and actually providing protection to the collections housed within" (Neil Greenwood, Programme Director, Darwin Centre).

Models and renderings of HL23, the new luxury condominiums by Neil M. Denari Architects, along with historic and contemporary images of the High Line will be on display from June 17 through September 21, 2008 in The Museum of the City of New York.

The Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) needed a new home as it was discovered their previous location was seismically inadequate. After a review of 141 international architects, Japan´s Toyo Ito was chosen to design the new museum, scheduled to open in 2013.

An exhibition of drawings and models from David Chipperfield Architects’ Neues Museum project in the Soane Gallery from 20 June to 6 September 2008.

The Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) opened its new Daniel Libeskind-designed building last weekend. The new facility—located in downtown San Francisco's Yerba Buena cultural district — is an adaptive reuse of Jessie Street Power Substation.

In an exclusive lecture within the “Spotlight on Design”- series, recently announced Pritzker Prize Laureate for 2008, Jean Nouvel presents his highly recognized contributions to the built environment of today. The lecture will take place on June 3, 2008 at 7 pm at the National Building Museum in Washington D.C.

100 years after the announcement of Adolf Loos`"Ornament and Crime", "Re-Sampling Ornament", an exibition of the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel attemps from 1 June to 21 September 2008 to trace the redux ornament in contemporary architecture.

The White City of Tel Aviv, UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site since 2003, adds to its vast collection of International Style buildings a new Bauhaus Museum, which opened on 25 April 2008. Bauhaus-designed furniture, graphics and other objects can be viewed within this unique environment of modern architecture.

Opened in October 2007 the Grand Rapids Art Museum in Michigan is designed through the integration of the arts and technology, and with a mission in obtaining a high-level certification from the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), thus making it one of the first art museums with such recognition.

At the Victoria & Albert Museum in London “100 Years of Structural Engineering” are on display until September 7, 2008. Several architecture talks & tours starting on April 8th go along with the presentation of famous works, done by the “Unseen Hands” of structural engineers.

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For SANAA the challenge was to reconcile the client’s spatial requirements and New York’s building code on a site just over 20 metres in width, wedged in between the neighbouring buildings. These considerations called for a vertical building and led to the concept of stacked boxes.

Steven Holl is currently establishing a major presence in China, considering four grand projects that are planned to open between 2008-2010. “Linked Hybrid” is a mixed used building in Beijing, as well as “Chengdu Project” and “Vanke Center” in Shenzen, not to forget the Nanjing Museum of Art & Architecture.

The Museum of Finnish Architecture starts on February 27, 2008 an exhibition on the work of famous Finnish architects Raili and Reima Pietilä, who became great advocates of modern architecture throughout the 20th century.

The only museum in the U.S. that documents Jewish-American experience is adding to the existing building a 9.200 square metres complex that was designed by Polshek Partnership of New York.

Last week was marked by Zaha Hadid’s double win of the design competitions for the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan, and the Lilium Tower in Warsaw. Further, Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed designs for an extension to the Middle East Centre at St. Anthony’s College in Oxford.

Last year’s fall was marked by another opening of a new museum building in the U.S. In Denver, Colorado, the new Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), designed by London-based Adjaye Associates, stands out among other things for achieving the gold-level Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification.

Kyu Sung Woo Architects has designed the new Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas. The museum serves as the starting point of a campus-wide art installation program, including a collection of outdoor sculpture and other contemporary art located throughout the campus.

The radical, functional and inspiring work of the French designer and engineer Jean Prouve (1901-1984) will be shown with examples of his furniture design, architecture, drawings, film and photographs.

A new 75-story tower designed by the architect Jean Nouvel for a site next to the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown promises to be the most exhilarating addition to the skyline in a generation. Its faceted exterior, tapering to a series of crystalline peaks, suggests an atavistic preoccupation with celestial heights.

David Chipperfield Architects have completed the design for a $125 million expansion of the Saint Louis Art Museum, presented on 5 November 2007. The expansion will increase the Museum's galleries and public spaces, providing new exhibition space for the Museum’s comprehensive collection, and also for touring exhibitions.

The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), a place to keep and display the collections of the Belgian Baron Ullens, one of the most important collectors of modern arts, was founded in the 798 Art Zone in Beijing. It is part of a vast munitions complex built by East German engineers and known as 798.

The Tokyo-based architects Sejima + Nishizawa/SANAA have designed a breathtaking facility that will feature beautifully proportioned galleries, a theater, an education floor, our renowned New Museum Store, a café, a top floor event space with roof terraces, and more.

In summer of 2005, Grimshaw was commissioned to design the Museo del Acero in and around Horno Alto 3, a decommissioned Blast Furnace from the late 60s. It marks a return for Grimshaw to the industrial city of Monterrey, in north-eastern Mexico.

Kyu Sung Woo Architects, an international architectural practice headquartered in Cambridge, Mass. has designed the new Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, Kansas. The museum, home to a significant collection of contemporary artists including, will bring an exciting new presence to the college-campus when it opens October 20, 2007.

The Shenzhen Municipal Planning Bureau has commissioned COOP HIMMELB(L)AU to design the Museum of Contemporary Art & Planning Exhibition in Shenzhen, China.

Zaha Hadid won the Pritzer Prize in 2004, when she had only just completed her first substantial project, the Rosenthal Centre for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati. Now she is busy working on projects that range from masterplans in Singapore and Istanbul, to an opera house in China, a museum in Rome, and a skyscraper in Dubai. Phaeno Science Centre, for which she was shortlisted for the 2006 RIBA Stirling Prize. Both have triumphantly demonstrated her ability to translate the essence of her virtuoso spatial invention in solid form.

This exhibition features the proposals of the five finalists of the MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program for a temporary construction at P.S.1 arts centre.