Multipurpose sports facility will be first completed building at Obama Presidential Center

When it opens in late 2025, the Home Court will be the first completed space on the Obama Presidential Center campus in Chicago. Located on the southwest corner of the 19.3-acre Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park, the Home Court will be the largest gathering space on the campus. Renderings recently have been released of the 45,000-sf multipurpose sports facility and events space designed by Moody Nolan.

Cultural Facilities

Kansas City’s new Sobela Ocean Aquarium home to nearly 8,000 animals in 34 habitats

Kansas City’s new Sobela Ocean Aquarium is a world-class facility home to nearly 8,000 animals in 34 habitats ranging from small tanks to a giant 400,000-gallon shark tank.

Museums

Chrysler Museum of Art’s newly expanded Perry Glass Studio will display the art of glassmaking

In Norfolk, Va., the Chrysler Museum of Art’s Perry Glass Studio, an educational facility for glassmaking, will open a new addition in May. That will be followed by a renovation of the existing building scheduled for completion in December.

Museums

Nebraska’s Joslyn Art Museum to reopen this summer with new Snøhetta-designed pavilion

In Omaha, Neb., the Joslyn Art Museum, which displays art from ancient times to the present, has announced it will reopen on September 10, following the completion of its new 42,000-sf Rhonda & Howard Hawks Pavilion. Designed in collaboration with Snøhetta and Alley Poyner Macchietto Architecture, the Hawks Pavilion is part of a museum overhaul that will expand the gallery space by more than 40%.

Museums

Museums | Nov 11, 2015

MVRDV designs a ‘disco ball’ for Rotterdam

Called the Collectiegebouw (Dutch for "collection building"), the building will make public the city’s extensive art collection, and give visitors a look at how museums work backstage, according to Fast Company.

Museums | Nov 10, 2015

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum breaks ground on Collections and Conservation Center

Designed by SmithGroupJJR, the David and Fela Shapell Family Collections and Conservation Center will provide long-term, secure preservation for evidence of the Holocaust.

Studio Gang designs American Museum of Natural History's new science center

Museums | Nov 6, 2015

Studio Gang designs sculpted science center for the American Museum of Natural History

The Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation will hold areas where visitors can engage with high-tech tools, such as gene mapping, 3D imaging, and big data assimilation and visualization, all to learn about the current state of scientific research.

Museums | Nov 4, 2015

George Lucas museum design by MAD Architects finally gets green light

The project will go ahead with its revised, smaller-scale design.

Museums | Oct 22, 2015

Kengo Kuma’s design for cultural museum in the Philippines evokes prehistoric cave feel

The Museum of Indigenous Knowledge in Manila, will house over 4,000 years of history.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Bachman Wilson House finds new locale at Arkansas museum

Museums | Oct 20, 2015

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Bachman Wilson House finds new home at Arkansas museum

Crystal Bridges Museum reconstructed the 61-year-old Usonian house and will open it to the public in November.

Museums | Oct 16, 2015

Renzo Piano will turn century-old Moscow power plant into art gallery

The idea is to take the GES2 power station, which was built between 1904 and 1907, and turn it into an exhibition space for the V-A-C Foundation, a Russian art organization.