The Riverside Museum in Glasgow offers not only a huge collection of transportation history, but now the building itself has become a reason to visit. The design by Zaha Hadid Architects features a cutting edge design that connects the museum to the ship building history of the area around it. The Museum opened on June 21 of this year and the museum had this to say about the design “Glasgow’s history as an industrial giant, a global leader in engineering and shipbuilding, is celebrated in an architectural masterpiece which shows that we remain at the cutting edge of design and technology.”

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On June 1st American artist Jeff Koons unveiled and signed the BMW Art Car he designed at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the same place where Roy Lichtenstein first presented and signed his Art Car in 1977. Since 1975, artists from throughout the world have turned BMW automobiles into art. Many of the cars by artists such as Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Holzer have been exhibited in renowned museums throughout the world including the Louvre, the Guggenheim Museums, and the Shanghai Art Museum. The BMW Koons designed is the 17^th in the series of BMW Art Cars. Read more …