This week on Dezeen, Kengo Kuma's Odunpazari Modern Museum in Turkey and the Bauhaus Museum in Dessau by Addenda Architects opened their doors to the public.
Located in Odunpazari ? meaning firewood market in Turkish ? the town's history as a timber trading hub was the starting point for the design by Kengo Kuma & Associates.
The stacked timber-clad boxes were designed to house small, more intimate spaces for artwork and open gallery-spaces for events.
Bauhaus Museum Dessau opens its doors
To celebrate the centenary of the Bauhaus, Barcelona-based Addenda Architects designed a simple glass box museum in the city where the school was based between 1925 and 1932.
The Bauhaus Museum Dessau exhibits delicate items inside a "floating" 100-metre black tube that sits above the main floor, and is designed to block out sunlight that might damage the objects on display. Interior shortlisted for Dezeen Awards disqualified after commenter spots "subtle cues" that images are fake
In design news, MIT Media Lab director Joichi Ito resigned from his position, after the institution reportedly received around $800,000 in donations from convicted sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein over a period of 20 years.
Meanwhile, an interiors project was disqualified from the Dezeen Awards after a commenter discovered "subtle cues" that showed the images were renders. Tell-tale signs included a curtain billowing identically from different angles and repeating wood grains.
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