Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. (Santa Barbara, CA)—The Art, Design & Architecture Museum (AD&A Museum) at UC Santa Barbara is pleased to announce three new ...

The Frick Collection -- The Menil Collection -- The Whitney Museum of American Art -- Georgia O'Keeffe Museum -- The Museum of Modern Art -- The Art Institute of Chicago -- The role of the museum ...

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art's original, neoclassical revival building sits next to the more modern Bloch Building, designed by New York architect Steven Holl. They are surrounded by the 22-acre ...

A competition to design Finland’s new Museum of Architecture and Design in Helsinki searched far and wide, receiving 624 proposals that were whittled down to a shortlist of five. Throughout the ...

This blog post was authored by Scott Newman, FAIA, Director, Cooper Robertson; and Erin Flynn, RA, LEED AP, Partner, Cooper Robertson. When designing a contemporary museum building, the exterior can ...

The 623 entries received for the Finnish Museum of Architecture and Design design competition have been revealed. The project replaces the plan for a new Guggenheim Museum in Helsinki, which was ...

A proposal by award-winning Helsinki firm JKMM has won a global design competition for the city’s new Museum of Architecture and Design. Slated to open in 2030, the roughly 100,000-square-foot ...

Think of the fountain at the heart of Balboa Park, along its main pedestrian promenade, as the hub of the park, surrounded by more than 100 years of architectural evolution. These buildings are worth ...

Over the past decade, the UAE has worked hard to cultivate and support a homegrown design culture – an ambition reflected in ...

With more than 100,000 artifacts dating back thousands of years, nearly 900,000 square feet of floor space, a site that spans more than 120 acres, and a total price tag estimated to be more than $1 ...

Frank Gehry, an award-winning architect whose designs for museums proved widely influential, died on Friday in Santa Monica, California, at 96. According to the New York Times, which first reported ...

Telling stories of museum architecture -- "Hobson's Choice": art and grog in Liverpool -- "It is, of course, very easy to make merry over the Alderman in Art": the 1930s extension and renovation -- ...