Xinjiang Wind Architectural Design & Research Institute crafted the DongZhuang Building Museum of Western Regions in homage to its location.
Photography by Yao Li

The use of cement, sand, rebar, and glass comprise the simple aesthetic, while traditional methods for laying stone and sun-dried mud bricks complete the look.
Photography by Yao Li

A natural extension of its surroundings, the durable and weather-resistant building appears from afar as an off-white stone rolled down from the Tian Shan mountainside.
Photography by Yao Li

DongZhuang Building Museum of Western Regions
Xinjiang, China
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Photography by Yao Li

Gene Kohn, founder of New York-based firm KPF, repurposed a former Welton Becket-designed department store into the Petersen Automotive Museum in Detroit.
Image courtesy Raimund Koch

Zaha Hadid Architects designed Mathematics: The Winton Gallery in London with areas separated into distinctive spaces through a series of looping and intertwining curves to create a canopy reminiscent of wind from plane propellers.
Photography by Luke Hayes

The Dubai Maritime museum is designed by Locally based Studio Niko Capa as a passage to the depths of the ocean’s unknown. Renderings courtesy of v2com

In addition to an open floorplan, the aquarium demonstrates a volcano-like shape formed by a steel cone and glass-reinforced concrete.
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Dubai Maritime museum
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