1911 – National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome, Italy
Architect: Cesare Bazzani
In 1883 the Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Exhibition Palace),
1912 – Lutyens’ Liffey Bridge Gallery Proposal, Dublin
Architect: Sir Edwin Lutyens
Intended to house the collection of Sir Hugh Lane,
1912 – Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Architect: E. & W.S. Maxwell
Having outgrown their premises,
1913 – Proposal for Bridge Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin
Architect: Horace T. O’Rourke
Sketch design by the architect Horace T.
1918 – Designs for Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Architect: Darling & Pearson
Never fully constructed,
1948 – Museu de Arte Popular, Lisbon, Portugal
Architect: Veloso Reis & João Simões
Originally designed by Veloso Reis and João Simões for the Portuguese World Exhibition’s popular life pavilion in 1940 The Folk Art Museum,
1952 – Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Architect: W.H. Withers / W.D.H. Baxter
Government architect W.H.
1954 – Unbuilt Design for Nataional Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
Architect: Green Blankstein Russell Associates
In 1953 an architectural competition was announced to design a new National Gallery of Canada for a site on Ottawa,
1959 – National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
Architect: Rodriguez Pichardo
The modern Bellas Artes Museum is split into two buildings housing International and Cuban art.
1959 – Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
This distinctive and iconic building was Wright’s last major work,
