Selldorf Architects is honored to be shortlisted for The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art’s International Design Competition, as the museum seeks to strengthen its role as a beacon of inclusivity, creativity, and social connection. The project focuses on expanding the museum’s role, transforming it into a more dynamic, open, and inviting space.

The Frick Collection announced today that it will reopen its Fifth Avenue home in April 2025. Selldorf Architects as Design Architect, with Beyer Blinder Belle Architects and Planners as Executive Architect, have been working on the renovation and enhancement project since 2016. Visitors will experience the museum’s permanent collection anew, with its iconic masterworks reinstalled in restored spaces on the first floor, along with rarely exhibited and recently acquired works shown in a new suite of galleries on the mansion’s second floor, open to the public for the first time.

Our project Gowanus CSO Facility, Owls Head has received a Public Design Commission (PDC) Award for Excellence in Public Design. We are proud of our partnership with Executive Architects and Engineers Hazen and Sawyer, Brown and Caldwell, and SCAPE Landscape Architecture on this project. This prestigious award recognizes exceptional public projects that elevate design standards and contribute to community well-being.

We are delighted to continue our long relationship with the Clark designing the new Aso O. Tavitian Wing. The project is funded by one of the largest gifts in the museum’s history from the estate of the late philanthropist Aso O. Tavitian, which includes over 330 artworks and $45 million to support the collection and fund the new construction. The addition will connect the existing Museum Building and Manton Research Center, providing a dynamic new space to display Mr. Tavitian’s personal collection.

Now published online, Vogue has profiled Annabelle Selldorf in this year’s September Issue. Dodie Kazanjian, the acclaimed arts writer who also wrote a feature on Annabelle for the magazine 10 years ago, is once again the author of this personal spotlight.

We are thrilled to share that David Zwirner’s Los Angeles flagship location at 606 North Western Avenue will open on May 23 with an inaugural exhibition presenting one work by each of its 80 artists. The newly constructed three-story building spans 15,000 sf of exhibition space and includes private viewing rooms, offices, and an outdoor terrace with views of the Hollywood sign.

Two Trees Management announced the launch of sales at One Domino Square, the new Selldorf Architects designed ground-up residential skyscrapers at the Domino Sugar Factory site along the Williamsburg waterfront.

Selldorf Architects has designed a new gallery for long-time client Hauser & Wirth in Hong Kong’s Central Business District. The gallery’s previous Hong Kong location, also designed by Selldorf, occupied two upper floors in the H Queen’s building. Hauser & Wirth’s desire to make the art more accessible prompted the move to this new location with direct access at street level.

Following a competitive Request for Proposals process, the Department of Design and Construction (DDC) and the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) selected the team of Scalamandre-Tully Construction Manager Joint Venture to serve as Design Builder, with Selldorf Architects, Design Architect, and Urbahn Architects, Executive Architect, for a new Administration and Personnel Building at the Harper Street Yard in Queens.

Annabelle Selldorf delivered the 2023 Linbury Lecture at the Natioal Gallery in London. The prestigious Linbury Lecture is an annual event that invites world-renowned speakers specializing in museums, galleries, or academic art history to explore themes relevant to the National Gallery’s history and collections. Held this year at the Royal Academy of Art as the National Gallery’s Theatre is closed during the construction of the NG200 project – a suite of capital projects being led by Selldorf Architects dedicated to making the National Gallery more welcoming and accessible to its diverse audiences,

The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Modern and Contemporary Art galleries, closed since 2021 for renovation by Selldorf Architects, reopened on September 22, 2023. The project has greatly enhanced the space for the display of the collection by doubling the amount of wall space and creating new dynamic circulation patterns to reinforce the fluidity between artistic disciplines and historical narratives. Key architectural details, including tall columns, portal skylights and arched, curved ceilings have been refurbished in sensitive balance to the needs of the collection alongside redistributed mechanical systems and new lighting. This project entails the first major reinstallation of the collection since 2006.

Designed by Selldorf Architects, One Domino Square is the latest addition to the iconic Domino Sugar Refinery redevelopment site. Far into construction, Selldorf Architects is working with Two Trees Management and Executive Architects dencityworks architecture. The buildings anchor the southernmost point of the 11-acre public park and are directly adjacent to Domino Square, an open park piazza, which is also under construction.