August.

Le Corbusier used to believe that power Stations were the cathedrals of the twentieth century and now, it seems, museums are the powerhouses of culture in the twenty-first. The August AR is devoted to exploring the best and latest. There will be quite a strong emphasis on Britain, where Millennial investment has enabled a great variety to be opened recently: notably the hugely successful Tate Modern in London, a literal transformation of powerhouse to museum by Herzog & De Meuron. Other London buildings will include Rick Mather's reworking of the Dulwich Soane, and the National Portrait Gallery by Dixon & Jones. Outside London, we shall be showing Michael Wilford's Lowry Centre designed to rescue the shattered centre of Salford, and the Eden Centre in Cornwall by Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners. As well as British work, we shall be showing Mecanoo's innovative Open Air Museum in Arnhem, the Netherlands, the Art Museum in Reykjavik by Studio Granda, the mysterious Sami Museum in Finnish Lapland by Juhani Pallasma a, the Fine Arts Museum in Houston, Texas by Rafael Moneo. Gigon & Guyer's Linear Museum at Appenzell, Switzerland. And, as usual, we shall be having our regular features on interior and product design, guides to hot websites and competitions and, of course, Outrage and Delight.

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