Known for award-winning museum designs and architecture, urbanism, campus planning and environmental design work, the firm Studio Ma has announced the completion of three major museums and a national initiative to promote and design “a new generation of net-zero-energy museums” and cultural institutions worldwide.

A museum devoted to exploring and expanding creativity must have an eye-catching design, and that’s certainly the case for the recently opened Cade Museum for Creativity + Invention in Gainesville, Fla.

Custom abstract butterfly shapes take visitors from inside to Bill’s Backyard of the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose. Made with pinta’s Willtec foam, they are part of a multiyear renovation and expansion that provides acoustical control and creates movement in the circulation area. 

Can architects help protect priceless cultural artifacts from extreme weather events? This will be a point of discussion in a major European museums conference on November 7th.