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Dubai Museum of Art


Designed by Pritzker Prize-winner Ando for Dubai-based conglomerate Al-Futtaim Group, Dubai Museum of Art, also known as DUMA, is hoped to become a cultural landmark for artists and art enthusiasts. Dubai Museum of Art will be housed in a rounded, twisting building overlooking the emirate's natural saltwater creek. Renders of the five-storey museum reveal a curving building finished with white walls, punctuated by triangular windows as they swoop and twist…

Completion of Grand Egyptian Museum


Dublin studio Heneghan Peng Architects has reached completion on the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, more than three decades after plans for the project were announced. Sprawled across a 50,000-square-metre site close to the Pyramids of Giza, the colossal museum houses more than 100,000 pharaonic antiquities – many that have never been made public before. It has a total floor area of 81,000 square meters and, according to Heneghan…

Bloomberg Student Center, USA


Located on the edge of Johns Hopkins' Homewood campus, the Bloomberg Student Center was designed by BIG and interior architect Rockwell Group as the "first-ever" building to be dedicated solely to student life at the campus. Where student activities at Johns Hopkins University were once dispersed, they are now clustered at the Bloomberg Student Center, a village of 29 timber pavilions climbing the natural hill on the university's edge.  …

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