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 | Sep 21, 2015

Ma Yansong and Jeanne Gang revise Chicago lakefront Lucas Museum

New renderings of the proposed Lucas Museum show a scaled-down building on more green space.

Museums | Sep 16, 2015

First look: Diller Scofidio + Renfro's The Broad museum in Los Angeles

LA's newest art museum combines gallery space and collection storage based around two design concepts: the veil and the vault.

Museums | Sep 9, 2015

Bauhaus Museum Dessau names two design winners

The German museum chose one sleek, no-nonsense concept and one colorful, complex entry.

Libraries | Aug 27, 2015

Barack Obama Foundation begins search for presidential library architect

Both national and foreign firms will compete for chance to design the Chicago-based Presidential Center.

Tribute tower to cricket ’96 world champions to be Sri Lanka’s tallest

High-rise Construction | Aug 7, 2015

Tribute tower to cricket world champs will be Sri Lanka’s tallest

The 1996 Iconic Tower will be a tribute to the country’s cricket team, which won the World Cup in 1996.

Contractors | Jul 29, 2015

Consensus Construction Forecast: Double-digit growth expected for commercial sector in 2015, 2016

Despite the adverse weather conditions that curtailed design and construction activity in the first quarter of the year, the overall construction market has performed extremely well to date, according to AIA's latest Consensus Construction Forecast.

Zaha Hadid, Messner Mountain Museum Corones, Reinhold Messner, Italy, mountain, Dolomites

Museums | Jul 28, 2015

MUST SEE: Zaha Hadid's latest museum project is built into a mountain

The museum, dedicated to legendary mountaineer Reinhold Messner, is embedded within Mount Kronplatz in northern Italy.

David Adjaye, Africa, Art, Black, African American, Harlem, Studio Museum, New York City, Thelma Golden

Museums | Jul 9, 2015

David Adjaye unveils brownstone-inspired design for The Studio Museum in Harlem

In designing the five-story, 71,000-sf building, Adjaye took cues from the brownstones, churches, and bustling sidewalks of Harlem.

Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Museum, Art, UC Berkeley

Museums | Jul 1, 2015

Diller Scofidio + Renfro merges old and new for UC Berkeley Art Museum design

The building, located directly across from the UC Berkeley campus, integrates the existing 48,000-sf Art Deco-style building with a new 35,000-sf structure.

Museums | Gensler | Jun 28, 2015

Manhattan's New Museum debuts first museum-led incubator space

Part studio, part shared workplace, part lab, and part professional development program, NEW INC connects design with technology, the arts with the market, students with seasoned practitioners, and the museum with the world.