RIBA
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body that celebrates the best architecture in the UK and across the world. The London-based organisation presents a number of awards annually, including the prestigious Stirling Prize and RIBA's highest honour: the Royal Gold Medal for architecture.
Maggie’s Centres
Maggie's is a charity that provides support to people with cancer and their families. The organisation has worked with some of the world's most famous names in architecture, including Norman Foster, Snøhetta and OMA to establish Maggie's Centres throughout the UK.
Design Museum
Founded by designer and retailer Terence Conran in 1989, London's Design Museum hosts exhibitions on product, industrial, graphic, fashion and architectural design.
Fondazione Prada
Fondazione Prada was established by the Italian fashion house Prada in 1993 as a cultural organisation dedicated to art, cinema and philosophy.
MoMA
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in New York City. It is famed for its thought-provoking exhibitions, architecture and design galleries, and PS1 Young Architects Program – the US equivalent to the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion – which commissions a different architect to
Musée du Louvre
Paris's Musée du Louvre, home to the iconic Louvre Pyramid by Pritzker Prize-winning architect IM Pei, is the world's largest art museum.
Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
Centre Pompidou
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Serpentine Galleries
The Serpentine Galleries is the highest-placed institution on our Hot List. This comes as little surprise since the two tiny galleries, set in Kensington Gardens in London, are responsible for one of the the most talked-about highlights of the architectural year: the annual Serpentine Pavilion commission.
Serpentine Galleries sit atop our Institutions Hot List
This is a UK-heavy list, with six of the top 10 based in Britain. It's perhaps inevitable that London's Serpentine Galleries comes out as the top institution, given that the annual Serpentine Gallery Pavilion commission is one of the most eagerly anticipated events in the calendar, with the gallery scoring a
Science Museum
London's Science Museum is dedicated to telling the story of scientific achievement through exhibitions and the presentation of iconic objects.
MAXXI
SFMOMA
Whitney Museum of American Art
Renzo Piano's new home for the Whitney Museum of American Art opened in New York in April 2015 and it's no surprise the controversial building makes it onto our Hot List.
Tate
London's Tate Modern – one of the city's most important cultural attractions – is Britain's national gallery of international modern art. The institution forms part of the Tate group, which itself is made up of three other galleries across the UK.
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“We are not in the midst of a revolution, we are between revolutions”
Opinion: Justin McGuirk argues that despite the furniture industry's decline in Italy, it's still the best place to buy a sofa until the digital manufacturing revolution delivers on its promises.
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Alberta Ferretti via Montenapoleone by Sybarite
London architects Sybarite have completed this shop interior for fashion house Alberta Ferretti in Milan.
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“‘Looks like’ is the lowest kind of criticism”
Comments update: architectural debate commanded the conversation on Dezeen this week, with one reader accusing the Modernist movement of "raping South America", while others were more concerned with defending MAD's design for the George Lucas museum from lazy criticism.
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“321,320 visitors celebrate 50 years of the Saloni” – Cosmit
Dezeenwire: 321,320 people visited the 50th Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan last week, an 8% increase on last year, according to organisers Cosmit. See the full figures below.
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“A 60 per cent reduction in plastic is the bare minimum we need the world to do”
We need to end our use of plastics for the sake of the planet and human's health, writes the director of Earth Day's end plastic initiatives Aidan Charron.
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Gaudí Centenary celebrates the legacy of an architect like no other
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Parametricism is the architecture “of neoliberalism itself”
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Design and architecture are overdue for a Performance Review
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Are we on the verge of a cob comeback?
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“Art deco designers shared a desire for an aesthetic appropriate for a modern world”
