Kicking off our annual review of architecture and design, editorial assistant Bridget Cogley looks back at the most important museums and galleries that opened in 2018. They include the V&A Dundee by Kengo Kuma and a treehouse-like art institution in Tulum.

V&A Dundee, UK, by Kengo Kuma
Scotland's first design museum, the V&A Dundee, was completed in September 2018 by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma – becoming the V&A's second outpost after its west London home.
With an angular construction and clad in horizontal concrete panels, the museum is designed to evoke the surrounding environment and at the mouth of the River Tay.
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IK Lab, Mexico, by Santiago Rumney Guggenheim and Jorge Eduardo Neira Sterkel Visitors have to take off their shoes before entering the IK Lab art gallery in Tulum, which was founded by Santiago Rumney Guggenheim – the great-grandson of famed art collector Peggy Guggenheim.
Formed by curved concrete surfaces and local wood, and incorporating vines and tree branches, the space was designed by Jorge Eduardo Neira Sterkel and forms part of his eco-friendly Azulik resort in the Mexican beach town.
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Torre, Italy, by OMA
OMA's slender white tower houses more galleries for contemporary art at the Fondazione Prada complex, which the Dutch architecture firm created at a former industrial site in Milan.
The Torre also includes a restaurant and...