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Photos of Thailand's first international contemporary art museum revealed

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International studio WHY Architecture has released images of the Dib Bangkok museum , which it claims will be "Thailand's first museum dedicated to international contemporary art". Dib Bangkok is Thailands first major museum dedicated to international contemporary art," the studio said.

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Art deco muralist Hildreth Meière was "forgotten in plain sight"

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Our final Art Deco Centenary designer profile spotlights Hildreth Meire, a pioneering muralist who left her indelible mark on buildings including New York's Radio City Music Hall, but whose legacy was eclipsed by her better-known male contemporaries.

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Ten notable projects by 2025 Royal Gold Medal-winner SANAA

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Among the studio's key projects are the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, which is composed of a low-lying circular structure wrapped with glass, and the stepped Sydney Modern gallery in Australia. Alongside its central art galleries, it hosts public spaces including a library, lecture hall and children's workshop.

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SANAA wins 2025 RIBA Royal Gold Medal

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Above: one of the studio's first major projects was the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa. The studio completed the New Museum of Contemporary Art in 2007. Top image: SANAA has won the 2025 RIBA Royal Gold Medal. Photo by Aiko Suzuki.

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Dezeen teams up with Kia to profile vast South Korean arboretum containing Álvaro Siza buildings

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Dezeen has partnered with Kia Design Team to launch a videoseries highlighting contemporary South Korean architecture, beginning with the Sayuwon arboretum and architecture park. In the first video reel in the series, Dezeen showcases the Sayuwon Arboretum alongside Kia's EV9 car model.

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Anna Heringer's Anandaloy was the most significant building of 2020

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We continue our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series with the Anandaloy centre in Bangladesh by Studio Anna Heringer , a pioneering project for the revival of mud construction in contemporary architecture. Mud is regarded as a poor and old-fashioned material and inferior to brick, for example," said the studio.

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Lacaton & Vassal, Frédéric Druot and Christophe Hutin's Transformation of 530 Dwellings was the most significant building of 2016

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The project drew attention to the issue of social housing retrofit While global recognition re-framed Lacaton & Vassal's work, the duo had since their formation in 1987 been exploring how shoestring budgets, simple gestures and ordinary materials could be used to maximum effect, whether for a private house or a contemporary arts centre.

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