Ten years in the making, Iraqi-born architectural phenomenon, Zaha Hadid’s Museum of Art for the XXI Century, or MAXXI, is finally completed. Located in Rome, the museum’s contemporary design is a pleasant and eye-catching addition to the city’s mostly historic feel. Housing contemporary art and architecture, the 26,000 square metre building includes moveable hanging partitions that allow gallery-goers to move freely across the space, as well as stand and stare.

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Italian architect Antonio Cardillo is of the opinion that architecture is only still in pictures, as in its real life it is in a state of transition with man and light moving through it. This ‘house of convexities’ near Barcelona is an embodiment of Cardillo’s question that, if architecture is music, then can its limbs dance? There is no doubt that his architecture has a quality that plays with transition and light and that this is one of the most beautiful renderings around.