Rome: “AT HOME. Designs for contemporary living” is the new presentation of the MAXXI museum’s architecture collection.

Designed by architecture firm Ultramoderne for the 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial, the Chicago Horizon pavilion is among the best examples of CLT timber architecture

Chinese architectural firm CCTN Design developed an ambitious regeneration project to convert a disused blast furnace in Beijing into a vibrant museum

Spanish architectural firm Vaillo+Irigaray has won the competition to design the new Tourism Faculty building at the University of Malaga, Spain

Bianchini & Lusiardi Associati has won the architectural competition to design a museum for 73 Jewish children rescued in Nonantola, Italy, during WWII

Amos Rex is a privately-funded art museum in Helsinki, Finland, also known for its futuristic underground expansion by JKMM Architects

Italian artist Maria Cristina Finucci created a large site-specific art installation in Milan made out of about two tons of used plastic bottle caps

During the Milan Design Week 2019, Brazilian design firm Estudio Campana transformed a cloister of the Statale University palace in Milan into a large grass-covered installation

At Milan Design Week 2019, Japanese design firm TAKT PROJECT, led by Satoshi Yoshiizumi, presents “glow ⇄ grow”, a lighting installation consisting of clear-resin stalactites

SaloneSatellite 2019: in this year’s edition, the prizes were assigned to projects focused on material-recycling processes and on their applications.

At the Milan Design Week 2019, Flos presents two new products designed by two masters of contemporary design: Konstantin Grcic and Philippe Starck

COS and French architect Arthur Mamou-Mani presents Conifera, a 3D-printed bioplastics brick installation on view at Palazzo Isimbardi during the 2019 Milan Design Week

Until 6 May 2019, the Centre Pompidou in Paris presents Victor Vasarely. Sharing Forms, a major retrospective dedicated to the father of Op Art.

Fondazione Prada presents the exhibition “Surrogati. Un amore ideale” (Surrogate. A Love Ideal) from 21 February 2019 at the Osservatorio venue in Milan

Until March 24, 2019, Palazzo Fortuny in Venice presents “Futuruins”. The exhibition is an investigation into the theme of ruins.

Are objects – with all their materiality, weight, physical consistency, smell, and imperfections – the only things that can bring us really into a story?

Tokyo, “Swell”, the latest installation designed by Japanese studio we+ (Hokuto Ando & Toshiya Hayashi) is a magic which captures wind and light.

The Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris highlighs the richness of Japan’s contributions to art and design with the exhibition “Japon-Japonismes, 1867-2018”

The Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan is a library which also houses the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana art gallery with works by Leonardo, Botticelli, and Caravaggio

The Museo Galileo is a science museum in Florence, named after famous Italian scientist Galileo Galilei, housed in a medieval palace near the Uffizi Gallery

Palazzo Altemps in Rome is a renowned museum of Classical sculpture, part of the National Roman Museum, and an Italian Renaissance palace near Piazza Navona

Somerset House is a well-known contemporary art center and a Neoclassical palace in central London; it also houses the Courtauld Gallery (currently closed)

The Palace of Versailles near Paris is a monumental architectural complex, mostly built in the 17th century, and the second most visited museum in France

The Barbican Centre is a multidisciplinary art center, including theaters and art galleries, and one of the best examples of British Brutalist architecture