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The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland in Ohio, USA, have unveiled plans for a new museum building by London firm Foreign Office Architects. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Visitors enter a museum of energy near a nuclear power plant in Spain through a curved wall of light. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This cluster of asymmetric wooden huts houses a museum dedicated to the craft of paper-making in a mountainside village in rural China. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Berlin studio Gnädinger Architekten has completed a faceted golden museum dedicated to medieval marksmanship beside the fortified city wall of Duderstadt in Germany. (more…) View the full article

Design Week Mexico 2016: empty cuboids representing both museum vitrines and coffins are stacked to create this installation outside Mexico City's Museo Tamayo (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Here is a complete set of photographs of the heavily criticised Museum of Liverpool by Danish architects 3XN, which opened to the public last month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Pieces of rubbish are displayed as artefacts in the Museum of Modern Waste, which Design School Kolding is exhibiting as part of VDF x Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

This museum in Warsaw, Poland, by Finnish studio Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects has a deep, cavernous entrance hall that cuts right through the building (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

US firm Studio Ma has drawn inspiration from horseshoes, woven baskets and rugged landscapes for its design of a Western heritage museum in the metropolis of Phoenix, Arizona (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Israeli firm Chyutin Architects have won a competition to build this museum that will bridge over a sunken garden in Jerusalem. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava's science museum with a skeletal roof that projects over a public plaza has opened in Rio de Janeiro (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

US firm Koning Eizenberg Architecture left worn-looking ornate walls, brickwork and columns inside this museum for children in Pittsburgh, which occupies a historic library that was struck by lightning. Read more View the full article

A boomerang-shaped museum in Mexico is balanced on stilts and stabilised in the air by tensile cables, allowing it to bridge a road and cantilever over a lake. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Graduate shows 2015: for those scared of injections, Royal College of Art graduate Celine Park has proposed a new immunisation technique: inhaling vaccines through fungus (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

A sustainable building material made from agricultural byproducts and mushroom mycelium has been nominated for the Design Museum's 2015 Design of the Year award. (more…)

Music: animator Anna Ginsburg has designed a psychedelic cast of colourful helmeted characters for Scottish musician Steve Mason's Planet Sizes music video. (more…) View the full article

Spanish architects Cor & Asociados have completed a pearlescent music hall in a village near Alicante. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French architects Opus 5 have built a concert hall on top of a former seventeenth century convent in northern France. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Music Project: Glasgow filmmaker James Houston created all the music in this video using pieces of outdated computer equipment, including several floppy disk drives and a Sega Mega Drive games console. (more...) View the full article

Hungarian pianist Gergely Bogányi has redesigned the grand piano to improve the quality of the sound produced, resulting in an unusual sculptural form (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

A website that offered free-to-use typefaces based on the handwriting of famous musicians has been closed down following legal issues over intellectual-property rights. Read more View the full article

Ten conceptual showrooms for the home of the future are presented in this exhibition at temporary arts venue Depot Basel in Switzerland. (more…) View the full article

Multiple European brands came together for MUT Design's Das Haus installation at IMM Cologne to create hybrid indoor-outdoor furniture prototypes that are now being put into production. Read more View the full article

Maison&Objet 2015: Spanish studio Mut Design has created a pair of chairs to look like masculine and feminine versions of the same seat. (more…) View the full article

Spanish studio MUT Design has created modular kitchen units from materials commonly found elsewhere in the home. (more...) View the full article