Museum

Discover 6 award-winning designs tagged Museum on Design News Magazine.

Designer / Brand: Masato Kure Work: Museum Classification: Interior

Deji Cultural Complex

Deji Cultural Complex provides a fusion of cultural arts and commercial facilities. It has six extensive facilities including an art museum, a museum, a bookstore, shops, and a café on its top 7300 m2 floor. The coexistence of these facilities allows customers to stop by at one they would not have otherwise visited. What makes The Triangle. JP's design innovation is that they entirely got rid of walls between spaces. By eliminating partitions, it freed the space from having boundaries between inside and outside giving customers a little "preview" before entering the space.

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Designer / Brand: Zhao Yunhai Work: Museum Classification: Interior

Zhenbaoguan

Zhenbaoguan is a private museum interior covering 750 square meters. The space displays a collection of artworks and wine inside a residence that also serves as an office and a place to receive guests. Cabinets, ceilings and floors are finished in black wood and stone, so attention stays on the exhibits. The cabinet lighting illuminates each artwork rather than the cabinet surfaces. Wine walls are arranged symmetrically along both sides of the main corridor, following Oriental symmetry aesthetics. Turns and level changes create a varied route through the rooms.

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Designer / Brand: Parmenidis-Longuepee-Mari Work: Museum Classification: Interior

National Gallery Athens

In the 1960's modern building of the National Gallery in Athens, the exhibition rooms are designed like a promenade in open space. The interior is designed as a sequence of wooden lined transitional areas for information, and of white exhibition rooms with specially designed suspended ceilings for each exhibition function. Controlling the directions of gaze, the depth of view in the rooms and towards the city, the general lighting in relevance with the exterior light, and subduing the materials and the technical details to highlight the works of art, the space gives an affect of free choice.

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Designer / Brand: Nic Lee Work: Museum Classification: Interior

Jinglan Bay Art

Jinglan Bay Art is a sales center interior located in Liuzhou, a mountainous area with winding waters. The interior covers 1705 square meters and includes reception, sales, display, digital media and VIP areas. Rather than copying the landscape through shapes, light and shadow are used to suggest high mountains and deep water. Black terrazzo is polished to a mirror finish, so the outdoor scenery and the movement of visitors are reflected. Raw stone at the entrance creates the depth of a valley. Other materials include chiseled marble, mineral paint, black wood and oak.

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Designer / Brand: Hans Maréchal Work: Museum Classification: Interior

The Evoluon

Commissioned by Next Nature, taking the challenge of revitalizing the entrance, lounge, restaurant, and meeting rooms of the Evoluon with limited resources. The goal: to restore the monument's original essence while eliminating clutter. The circular design approach, by utilizing existing furnishings with a fresh blue "skin" to maintain the building's integrity. This blue symbolizes purity and the future, aligning with Next Nature's branding and Philips' legacy. The interior is made of environmentally friendly materials and furniture of local designers.

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Designer / Brand: Piotr Pyrtek Work: Museum Classification: Interior

Hangar Renovation

Hangar Renovation is a museum interior created inside a historic aircraft hangar. The museum presents engineering and technology, and the space also hosts events and performances. The new interior elements follow an industrial style linked to the original use of the hangar. A mezzanine with an open lattice structure is raised three metres above the floor. The mezzanine is set away from the exterior walls to preserve the original building. Steel, brick, concrete and wood are used. The old heating stoves and their installation are restored and shown to visitors.

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