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

Museum, Guggenheim, Helsinki, Moreau Kusunoki, Art in the City

Museums | Jun 23, 2015

Moreau Kusunoki's 'art in the city' scheme wins Guggenheim Helsinki design competition

The firm’s design concept makes use of the museum’s site, turning it into a bustling, well-connected waterfront hub.

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos and gmp Architekten win Guangzhou museum competition

Museums | Jun 17, 2015

Final two designs selected for China's 'Three Museums, One Square' development

Overlooking the Pearl River in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, the cluster of museums will be designed by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, gmp Architekten, and Thomas Herzog Architekten.

Qatar launches competition for waterfront art museum design

Museums | Jun 3, 2015

Qatar launches design competition for waterfront art museum

The new gallery will repurpose a soon-to-be-vacant flour mill.

SANAA won bid to design new building for Art Gallery of New South Wales

Museums | May 28, 2015

SANAA wins bid to design new building for Art Gallery of New South Wales

The museum's developers hope the new gallery will enrich Sydney’s eastern cultural precinct.

Preliminary Design for U.S. Olympic Museum Unveiled

Museums | May 18, 2015

Diller Scofidio + Renfro unveils preliminary design for U.S. Olympic Museum

According to the firm’s founding partner, Elizabeth Diller, the design was inspired by the movement of athletes, as it “spirals up and outwards from a central atrium.”

Museums | Gensler | May 13, 2015

The museum of tomorrow: 8 things to know about cultural institutions in today’s society

Entertainment-based experiences, personal journeys, and community engagement are among the key themes that cultural institutions must embrace to stay relevant, write Gensler's Diana Lee and Richard Jacob.

Museums | Apr 27, 2015

Finalists’ designs for Guggenheim Helsinki competition released

A custom-developed App engages an international public in the selection process.

Designs for National Medal of Honor Museum by Safdie Architects unveiled

Museums | Apr 23, 2015

Moshe Safdie unveils pentagonal scheme for National Medal of Honor Museum

The new museum near Charleston, S.C., will archive the history of the nation's highest military honorees.

Museums | Apr 22, 2015

Check out Ralph Johnson's stunning nature-inspired Shanghai museum

The newly opened Shanghai Natural History Museum, designed by Perkins+Will’s Global Design Director Ralph Johnson, mimics the shape of a nautilus shell, and features natural elements throughout.

Museums | Apr 16, 2015

SANAA and Snøhetta tie at first place for Budapest museum bid

The two firms submitted designs for the New National Gallery and Ludwig Museum, one of five planned museums to be constructed in a park just outside the urban center of Hungary’s capital.