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5 Museums Pushing Architectural Limits

Preserving and showing the world the beautiful and representative cultural heritage of humanity is a key part of what makes museums a wonderful place where art and utility meet. The changes and reinvention they bring to the built environment are important to highlight. Museums are more than just places to protect our shared history, but they also play an important role in the development of our urban and rural environments.

1. Yangtze Opus Wuhan Art Museum

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Vertical Lifen in Wuhan resembles a lane in Beijing and it is the essential cultural symbol in the city. The journal depicts the common people’s lives, mixed culture in the settlement, as well as the rise and fall of the population in the places. It shows the mutual prosperity of building and life. At Wuhan beach with the combination of the present and the past and western and eastern culture, by modern language, Water from Design reconstructed Life.

2. Soumaya Museum

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Fernando Romero Enterprise is a global architecture and industrial design firm founded by Fernando Romero with offices in New York, Mexico City, Madrid, and Shenzhen. Operating for over the past 20 years, fr·ee has realized and proposed projects in a number of countries that encompass different programs and contexts, from museums and office buildings to dense urban centers and the desert.

3. V&A Dundee

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V&A Dundee was designed by renowned award-winning Japanese architects Kengo Kuma & Associates following an international competition. The form of the hulking museum is inspired by the sharp cliffs of Scotland and the city’s maritime roots as the key entry point to Scotland for shipping from northern Europe. Dramatic lines of pre-cast concrete run horizontally around the curving concrete walls.

4. Munch

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The Munch Museum by Spanish Architecture Firm, Estudio Herreros will showcase a rich collection of Norwegian heritage and culture and thousands of artworks by artist Edvard Munch, as well as present a contemporary museum concept that highlights architecture’s urban role and historical responsibility of Oslo and the nation as a whole.

5. M + Museum 

M+ Museum is a brand new museum that recently opened up in Hong Kong, and it focuses on visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District of Hong Kong. It exhibits twentieth and twenty-first century visual culture encompassing visual art, design and architecture, and moving image.

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