Museum design connects art, architecture, and nature
Three recent examples show how landscape views enhance exhibit space.
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Three recent examples show how landscape views enhance exhibit space.
On July 4, 2026, the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library is scheduled to open on 93 acres in Medora, a town in North Dakota with under 130 permanent residents, but which nonetheless has become synonymous with the 26th President of the United States, who lived there for several years in the 1880s.
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.
Adaptive reuse project turns 1929 cinema into a live performance venue, adds a brewery and a taproom, and revives the Ramova Grill in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood.
The Denny Substation includes 44,000 sf of open space that invites local residents and visitors to frequent the complex.
The Opera House is part of a new urban master plan for Shanghai.
It recently debuted three climate-controlled event spaces and an indoor-outdoor café
Their winning proposal was supported by six of the seven members of the jury.
The project gives Bordeaux an art-filled public space from the waterfront to the city’s new urban room.
MAD beat out four other proposals for the opportunity to design the theater.
The firm's Williams Terrace project is the first dedicated housing for Charleston, S.C.’s low-income seniors. It's one of four developments to win 2019 AIA/HUD housing awards.
The project will sit on the banks of the Harlem River in Sherman Creek Park.
Former ConocoPhillips CEO and wife have donated millions for culture and education.
Facility is expanding its after-school programming.