The Bat Trang Pottery Museum’s Architectural Ode to Tradition Is A Canyon In The City Of Vietnam

In the heart of Vietnam’s Bat Trang village, where the artistry of ceramic and pottery has thrived since the 11th century, a striking testament to this enduring legacy has emerged. The Bat Trang Pottery Museum stands not only as a repository of artisanal creations but also as a living embodiment of the village’s rich history and cultural identity.

Designer: 1+1>2 Architects

The design of the Bat Trang Pottery Museum is more than just a structure; it is a poetic translation of local tales and traditions. The architects embarked on a collaborative journey with pottery experts, local artisans, and villagers, ensuring that the museum’s essence resonates with the very soul of Bat Trang. The tiered, canyon-like architecture pays homage to the potters’ wheels, capturing the spirit of traditional kilns crafted from brick. This deliberate nod to the village’s heritage reflects a commitment to preserving and celebrating the art form that has been passed down through generations.

Walking through the Bat Trang Pottery Museum is not merely a visual experience; it is a journey through architectural drama. The seven inverted domes create a mesmerizing interplay of light and shadow, forming expansive open-air spaces on the ground level. These spaces become dynamic venues for events, exhibitions, and traditional festivals, fostering a sense of community engagement. Skylights strategically positioned atop the structure usher in daylight, infusing the interiors with ambient coolness and creating a harmonious connection with the surrounding environment, also marked as a sustainable element.

The choice of materials in the museum’s construction is a delicate dance between tradition and modernity. Fiber-reinforced concrete cladding, chosen as the primary construction element, speaks to the contemporary while remaining grounded in practicality. Its lightness allows for upward expansion and easy implementation by local builders. Intertwined with this modern material are earthen bricks, mosaic ceramic, and pottery tiles—each telling a story of the Bat Trang craft village. This thoughtful integration not only pays homage to the local craftsmanship but also ensures a seamless blend of the museum with its cultural context.

Beyond its role as a repository of ceramics and pottery, the Museum serves as a multifunctional haven for the community. The four-story tower accommodates commercial enterprises and homestays, ensuring economic support for the locals. The Bat Trang culinary space on the fourth floor celebrates the village’s gastronomic heritage, complemented by an adjacent auditorium for performing arts. At the summit, a rooftop garden crowns the museum—a collaborative workshop and playground, inviting visitors to engage in the artistic process.

In capturing the essence of Bat Trang’s local ceramic and porcelain crafts, the Bat Trang Pottery Museum stands as a beacon of cultural continuity. It is a testament to the delicate balance between architectural innovation and the preservation of tradition, offering visitors an immersive experience that transcends time and tells the story of a village deeply rooted in the art of pottery. Architectural photographer Trieu Chien’s lens captures the sculptural beauty, inviting the world to witness the harmonious marriage of past and present in this unique architectural masterpiece.

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Sculptural sloping roof was added to an art museum in China to help it merge into the mountainside

Chinese architectural practice Wang Chong Studio utilized rustic stone walls, and an enchanting sloping rofe to preserve the Taihang Xinyu Art Museum, which is located alongside the Cangxi River, with the Taihang Mountains as its backdrop. The studio used recycled local stone to artfully merge the art museum with the rocky site it is located in, in China’s Henan Province.

Designer: Wang Chong Studio

The studio wanted to bring the history of the region to the limelight. It topped the art museum with a sculptural tiled roof which seems to blend perfectly with the natural landscape. In fact, it looks as if the roof is growing out of the landscape. “The transformed, rather than demolished, warehouses effectively reflect heritage, identity, and the site’s background,” said studio founder Wang Chong.  “The new building volume that surrounds it creates a hybrid method that is more effective than tabula rasa or ‘repairing the old as the old’.”

A stunning waterside courtyard with stone elements and stepped paths welcomes you to the museum and provides lovely views down the river. “Traditional Chinese landscape paintings try to describe the paths into the mountains layer by layer, which inspired us to design layers of retreats and zigzag mountaineering paths in the site adjacent to the water and back of the mountain,” said Wang. Quite interestingly, the museum has been equipped with a restaurant. It is located in the excavated portion of the hillside below the museum, with massive floor-to-ceiling windows providing attractive views of the neighboring courtyard.

The Taihang Art Museum can be accessed by a stone staircase, and it consists of a series of exhibition spaces that have been divided by rugged stone walls. The gallery spaces showcase pre-existing elements from the site. The sloping curved roof tops this space, and creates segregated spaces that have ceilings that differ in height. “The sloping roof draws inspiration from the Chinese-style large roof,” said Wang. “In ancient Chinese architecture, the large roof is described as ‘like a bird spreading its wings and a pheasant spreading its wings and flying’, as if the wings bring a light feeling.”

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This beautiful Budapest museum has a roof that gently curves to meet the ground

When talking about stunning architectural works, we often think of structures and buildings that stick out from the ground. This can be something as sprawling as a majestic palace or something as breathtaking as a thin skyscraper. After all, it’s a bit difficult to appreciate something that’s hidden underground. Of course, it’s not exactly impossible, especially if the entrance to that underground haven stands out in a very special way. One would presume that an underground structure wouldn’t need to have a grand entrance, but the new Museum of Ethnography in Budapest dares to be different, creating an awe-inspiring visage where the ground meets the sky, welcoming visitors to the treasures trove inside while also providing a completely new experience for people who just want to stroll along.

Designer: NAPUR Architect

About sixty percent of the newly inaugurated Ethnography Museum is actually below ground level. This is where the main attraction of the venue is stored, of course, housing around 250,000 historical artifacts in a single facility for the first time in over a century. Rather than just having a simple structure to house the entrance to this underground museum, however, the winning design went the extra mile to create a structure that is itself a wonder to behold. More importantly, it also serves as a place for people to congregate and enjoy the fresh outdoor atmosphere, probably before or after filling their minds with knowledge of the past.

It’s not exactly easy to describe the shape of the museum’s above-the-ground floors. A skating rink might be an apt comparison, with a surface that curves downward in the middle to become level with the ground. Alternatively, you could also picture it as the building’s sides rising above the ground to reach the sky. Whichever way you try to think about it, the museum’s roof is both above ground as well as on the ground, creating an almost seamless connection with the park surrounding it.

The grass-covered roof definitely feels like an extension of the green park and is a perfect venue for community and social activities. But while the structure of the building is its most eye-catching part, closer inspection will also reveal equally interesting details that are more closely related to the building’s purpose. A glass curtain wall surrounds the exposed part of the landscaped roof, and this wall holds metal grids that create a dot-matrix display based on ethnographic motifs from the museum’s collection.

Whether it’s the wealth of historical artifacts inside or the beauty of the structure outside, this new Hungarian museum is bound to be the center of attraction for the country. It is a design that tries to blend the past and the present in a non-obvious manner, creating spaces that encourage communication, interaction, and perhaps even a bit of reflection. Either way, it’s definitely a great way to invite people to take a break on the landscaped roof garden and to maybe take a peek inside Hungary’s collection of cultural treasures while you’re at it.

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Dubai’s Museum of the Future will let you see the future and discover new worlds

Museum of the Future Dubai

Museums are a great way to spend time with people. They not only provide a smart and effective way of learning but they can also inspire ideas and experiences. In Dubai, a new one-of-a-kind museum has opened up that can let you explore many possibilities one can only previously imagine.

The Museum of the Future is a fitting name for this new museum that allows visitors to see and experience the future. It’s like stepping into a new dimension or for others, time travel to a few decades ahead where innovation, creativity, and functionality meet. The whole museum offers a delightful and almost otherworldly experience in this day when we’re about to enter the era of metaverses, audio and augmented realities, AI, and the like.

Designer: Killa Design

Museum of the Future Exhibit

At the Museum of the Future, you can do a lot of things. You can inhabit the skies aboard the OSS Hope as it transports you to a space state 600 kilometers above the earth. Discover new worlds where the Pioneers live and work with the goal of learning, discovering, and inventing new things for people on Earth.

Witness the wonders of nature and visit a digital version of the Amazon rainforest. A mixed reality recreation of the rainforest lets you see observe details and meet the hundreds of species you don’t normally see. Feel free to explore the vault of life and a DNA library featuring thousands of species.

Museum of the Future Vault of Life DNA

You’ll never run out of things to do at this museum. Revive your senses at a sanctuary for the human senses and disconnect from the world and technology for a while. After a visit to this museum, you will see yourself, other people, and the world with new eyes. All these will help transform your mind that will enable you to shape and introduce development to your communities.

The Museum of the Future offers opportunities to experience the future of many areas in our life including living, space travel, ecology, and even climate change. You can also check out what could be the future for our spirituality, health, and wellness. Being inside this museum will definitely do wonders for your soul.

Museum of the Future Design

The Museum of the Future is aimed to be another dynamic and expressive landmark in Dubai. It was designed by Killa Design, a local studio that is dedicated to designing innovative buildings that are environmentally sustainable and contextually inspired. The design firm’s creations are timeless and innovative as exhibited by the Museum of the Future.

This Museum of the Future features three main areas: the building, the void, and the green hill. The latter represents the earth and reminds us of our roots that shouldn’t be forgotten. It was meant to further elevate the building and bring it above the Dubai metro line. This greenery is something visitors will enjoy as they engage with the Musem.

Museum of the Future

The building is shaped like an elongated ring. It represents mankind, showing creativity and strength amidst a vast urban landscape. The surface of the building shows Arabic calligraphy about the future. The elliptical void in the middle symbolizes innovation. It’s an empty space that can inspire people, not just the creators, innovators, and inventors, to look forward to the future.

Museum of the Future Hours

Definitely, the Museum of the Future will be another addition to the numerous innovative landmarks in Dubai. It’s one sustainable creation with its LEED Platinum status. The torus-shaped building is 17,000m2 and is constructed with BIM (Building Information Modeling) at every stage.

Killa Design explained how the low carbon civic building is achieved. The group applied several innovations from a parametric design to integrated renewables to low-water engineering and low-energy solutions. The result is a 78-meter high building set in a 3-story podium. The building features one administration floor and six exhibition floors. There is also an auditorium, an F&B deck, plus spaces for retail and parking.

Museum of the Future Launch

The Museum of the Future is all about design and innovation. It will soon be an ultimate mecca for creatives, researchers, designers, and inventors. Scientists and entrepreneurs are also welcome to the Museum to get inspired and be empowered. It’s also for everyone who wants to see and live a better future. Going to the Museum of the Future will definitely evoke feelings of hope in this pandemic world.

Museum of the Future Opening

Museum of the Future Interior Design

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Museum Designs that are not only powerhouses of knowledge and history, but of architecture too!

Call me a nerd, but I really do love museums! They’re powerhouses of knowledge, history, innovation, and architecture too. If you step into a museum, you always step out, 10 times wiser, and maybe a little sleepier! But that’s okay, all that intake of facts can be a bit exhausting. Now we know that the insides of a museum are always interesting, but their exteriors can be pretty cool too! And, we’ve curated a collection of some of the best-designed museums we’ve come across! From a modern art museum with a rolling green roof to a red rock African museum that feels martian – these interesting museum designs will have you itching to visit one!

Known for designing bold, daredevil retreats stationed on the edge of mountain summits and cliffsides, Eshtiyaghi maintained the same mythical energy for his most recent rendering of Tehran’s Modern Art Museum. From an aerial viewpoint, Eshtiyaghi’s museum does not form any distinct shape, progressing past geometric, sharp angles for a gleaming white roof that slopes and bulges like a white tarp covering a wild landscape. The green space that surrounds Eshtiyaghi’s museum tightens the museum’s abstract energy with rolling green roofs that mimic the overlapping lines of soundwaves, offering a place to rest on its manicured lawns.

Frank Gehry revamped the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Pennsylvania by adding new galleries and public spaces to it. A four-year-long renovation led to the redesigning of the enormous space which is 90 square feet in total! Gehry maintained the use of Kasota stone, a golden limestone, which was used in the original construction of the museum while adding new and improved spaces as well. The result is a beautiful mix of the new and the old!


OPEN Architecture recently revealed the visual concept that made them finalists in the International Architecture Design Competition for the Shenzhen Maritime Museum. OPEN Architecture’s competition entry showcases six glass structures shaped to resemble icebergs stationed in Shenzhen Bay, which house curatorial rooms including the lobby, theater, library, and children’s education wing. Considering today’s global climate crisis, the designers behind the plan for the future Shenzhen Maritime Museum hope to bridge the urgency of climate change with an accessible means of learning more about it.

The ambitious structure is called ‘Delta’ after the Pearl River Delta and is designed to rise seamlessly from the river with an accessible green rooftop for visitors to soak in the natural setting. The roof is a public park that showcases organic geometries in the form of architecture. The dynamic shape has been inspired by a river stream that has a new view, a new bend, a new discovery at every turn. Similarly, the museum too will have different views at every turn overlooking the surrounding park, hills, and lake from the winding terraces.


Spanning 15,000 square feet, sprawling across the beautiful Randselva river, in northern Europe’s largest sculptural park stands ‘The Twist’. Twirling through the air and combining two riverbanks, The Twist is “a hybrid spanning several traditional categories: It’s a museum, it’s a bridge, it’s an inhabitable sculpture,” says Bjarke Ingels, Founding Partner & Creative Director, BIG. Situated at the Kistefos Sculpture Park in Jevnaker, Norway, the project was first proposed in 2011 by the Bjarke Ingels Group and now in 2019, it is a striking reality.

Daniela Kröss and Rainer Köberl completed the Ibex Museum in Austria. The beautiful red building looks almost like a small castle and celebrates the history of the Ibex – a native goat species of Pitztal, Austria. The architects wanted the building to be a landmark, hence designing it as a rusty red four-storey tower that would instantly grab attention! The red of the structure stands out against the lush green of the nature-filled backdrop!


>The New Taipei City Museum of Art should propose a new paradigm for celebrating art in Taipei, one that brings lifestyle, art, recreation, and education together to celebrate a vibrant cultural identity for the community. The existing park located at the meeting of the Yingge and Dahan rivers within which the Museum sits is one that immediately reveals a dynamic juxtaposition between the constructed nature (the park environment) and the density and “urban” scale of the surrounding hillside context. The NTCArt proposes a dramatic physical redesign into the Yingge park landscape in the form of a line.

A combination of modern and traditional, indigenous and industrial, the restoration of the Old Palapye Museum truly feels otherworldly. Set in the heritage site of Palapye in Botswana, the building’s setting is highly reminiscent of a Martian landscape, surrounded by red soil and rocks. Amidst this lie the ruins of a burnt brick church built in 1891, standing proudly within perimeters of a rich historic site of the 19th century capital of the Bangwato tribe. Still holding immense cultural relevance, the building’s restoration (and subsequent conversion into a museum) aims at bringing attention back to the rich traditions and the ways of the Bangwato people.

Designed by studio Killa Design, the Museum of the Future in Dubai exhibits an innovative design! The torus-shaped structure has been covered with calligraphy! The calligraphy is a poem written by the city’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed. The museum intends to inspire people who see the building, and encourage them to create, innovate and explore!

It would be much too literal to shape a chocolate museum-like actual chocolate, wouldn’t it? So designer Ricardo Canton decided to capture the allure and instant mouth-watering attraction of chocolate (or any candy for that matter) in his architectural style for the Nestlé Chocolate Museum. Borrowing from the rigid nature of chocolate candy bars, the museum’s very entrance and the sky-bridge that follows pretty much nails the brief by looking absolutely lick-worthy. The choice of red seems fitting too, given that red is one of Nestlé’s brand colors!

The rolling green roof of this modern art museum was built with to merge art preservation with futuristic technology!

On one hand, museums are known for keeping paintings and artifacts of ancient civilizations with preservation being the goal. On the other, more modern museums incorporate some of the most advanced technology of today into their exhibitions to introduce the exciting possibilities for the art of tomorrow. Enacting his own preferred modern technology to conceptualize a modern art museum for the city of Tehran, architect Milad Eshtiyaghi hopes to evolve this relationship between today’s technology and the preservation of Islamic and Iranian art.

Known for designing bold, daredevil retreats stationed on the edge of mountain summits and cliffsides, Eshtiyaghi maintained the same mythical energy for his most recent rendering of Tehran’s Modern Art Museum. From an aerial viewpoint, Eshtiyaghi’s museum does not form any distinct shape, progressing past geometric, sharp angles for a gleaming white roof that slopes and bulges like a white tarp covering a wild landscape. Modern museums are generally known for their conceptual architecture, a form Milad Eshtiyaghi executes well considering his wide array of escapist hideaways. The green space that surrounds Eshtiyaghi’s museum tightens the museum’s abstract energy with rolling green roofs that mimic the overlapping lines of soundwaves, offering a place to rest on its manicured lawns.

Inside, the shapelessness of Tehran’s Modern Art Museum provides an eccentric stage for contemporary art exhibits. The museum’s tower wing spirals above the rest of the exhibition space, bringing guests to the museum’s highest vantage point via a web of winding, interconnected staircases. Etched along the tower’s facades and the museum’s main lobby, circular holes infuse the museum’s industrial interior with plenty of sunlight. Throughout the museum’s interior and exterior spaces, Eshtiyaghi hoped to communicate the significance of modern technology when used for art preservation, merging the age-old practice of museum work with today’s technological advancements.

Designer: Milad Eshtiyaghi

Without any distinct shape, Eshtiyaghi’s Modern Art Museum welcomes contemporary art, for all its abstract, shapeless glory.

Like many modern museum spaces, Eshtiyaghi’s Modern Art Museum features an outdoor plaza and interconnected green spaces.

Various vantage points puncture the museum’s facades.

The museum’s tower spirals above slopes and bulges of the museum’s white roof.

Holes are dotted across facades to bring in natural sunlight to the museum’s industrial interior.

 

Rolling green roofs mimic the flow of soundwaves.

Inside, staircases interconnect to form webs of walkways for guests to explore.

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