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Ashmolean Museum

Rick Mather's Ashmolean expansion brings a museum's remarkable collection into the light says Charles Linn

Architectural Record

Virginia is for Art Lovers

Lee Rosenbaum reviews the VMFA

Wall Street Journal

Great expectations

What awaits discovery at the new Virginia Museum of Fine Arts? An architectural critique by Edwin Slipek Jr.

Style Weekly

By Design

Steven Beschloss takes a look at the new VMFA

Private Clubs magazine

Rick Mather Architects win most RIBA Awards

Rick Mather Architects have won the most awards of any practice in this year's RIBA Regional Awards with four successful projects.

Letting in the light

Philippa Glanville reports on Rick Mather's latest museum transformation.

Apollo

Rick Mather wins big at RIBA Awards

Ashmolean museum wins one of four awards for architects

Building

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, by way of former Getty director, opens

Katherine Calos reviews the new Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Los Angeles Times

Rick Mather discusses the LJMU Art and Design Academy

Lewis Biggs, director of the Liverpool Biennial interviews Rick Mather on the LJMU Art & Design Academy

Edge

Rick Mather's design elevates Richmond museum's dour 1930s architecture

Philip Kennicott reviews the new VMFA expansion

Washington Post

Mather's $150m VMFA expansion opens to the public

Rick Mather Architects' Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond $150million expansion opens to the public

Press release

VMFA Grand Opening

First impressions from visitors at the grand opening of the expanded Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Richmond Times Dispatch

VMFA will reveal a fully transformed art space

Roy Proctor reports on the soon to be revealed VMFA expansion

Richmond Times Dispatch

Let the Sunshine In

Director Alex Nyerges on the forthcoming grand reopening of the VMFA

Style Weekly

Working on a building

VMFA's expansion balances transparency and serendipity writes Peter Galuszka

Style Weekly

The Ashmolean Museum

Maev Kennedy reviews the new Ashmolean

Art Quarterly

South Kilburn regeneration scheme gets planning permission

Sustainable residential development at the South Kilburn Regeneration Roundabout Site, Carlton Vale

Camden Council appoints RMA for new Chester Balmore housing

New sustainable family housing for residents.

Review: The Ashmolean, Oxford

Nichola Johnson welcomes a reinvigorated university museum that allows visitors to make connections across its remarkable collections

Museums Journal

Museums vie for Art Fund prize

A £61m refurbishment of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum has made it a front-runner for the £100,000 Art Fund prize, writes Peter Aspden

Financial Times

Ashmolean transformed

Richard Shone reviews the newly transformed Ashmolean

The Burlington Magazine

At the Ashmolean

The new Ashmolean is a wonderful thing says Peter Campbell

London Review of Books

Seeing is believing

Rick Mather's redevelopment concentrates on bringing the museum's magnificent collection into the limelight says Pamela Buxton

RIBA Journal

New Ashmolean officially opened by Her Majesty The Queen

Royal visit to £61 million museum expansion

Collected Works

Ros Diamond on major interventions at the Ashmolean by Rick Mather Architects and at the V&A by MUMA.

Architecture Today

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts expansion - the largest in its history - is in high gear reports Art Daily

With less than four months to go before the grand opening May 1, interior and exterior work on the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts expansion - the largest in its history - is in high gear.

Art Daily

The world in a new light

There is a new exhibition on at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, and it is...the Ashmolean Museum writes Robin Blake

Financial Times

Rick Mather Architects win BD Public Building Architect 2009

Rick Mather Architects has been awarded Public Building Architect of the Year in the 2009 Building Design Awards.

Rick Mather Architects win Architectural Achievement Award

Win for Towner at The British Design Awards 2009

Light touch

Britain's oldest museum reopened this month after a £61m refit. James Hall reviews

The Guardian

The very model of a modern museum

Ashmolean Museum reviewed by Thomas Sutcliffe

The Independent

A New Ashmolean

Oxford University's fusty old museum has been transformed into a spacious and modern house of treasures says Henry Chu

Los Angeles Times

Making the Ashmolean Exhibition

The story of planning, designing and building the new Ashmolean

Exhibition open 4th November 2009 to 28th February 2010

Masterplan for North Harlow

Rick Mather Architects and Grimshaw appointed to Harlow masterplan

BBC Radio 4 Saturday Review

Tom Sutcliffe reviews the Ashmolean Museum

BBC Radio 4

BBC The Culture Show

Andrew Graham-Dixon presents The Culture Show from the Ashmolean Museum

BBC 2

Virginia Museum - Newly Transformed

Artdaily.org looks at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art's $150m expansion

Artdaily.org

Inner space

AJ's Felix Mara takes a tour of this refurbished, expanded and well-articulated museum.

The Architects' Journal

The Ashmolean Transformed

The Ashmolean Museum unveils its new building. Designed by Rick Mather, its 39 galleries break down the curatorial boundaries in England's oldest public museum, writes Philippa Glanville.

Apollo Magazine

Ashmolean becomes a glittering exhibit

Architect Rick Mather's redesign of the Ashmolean, Oxford's 300-year-old university museum, is stunning says Richard Dorment

Daily Telegraph

A phoenix rises from the Ashmolean

Oxford's forbidding museum was almost as dead as the dodo it once housed. Enter Rick Mather...says Stephen Bayley

The Observer

First class from Oxford

The Ashmolean, Britain's oldest museum, has surfaced revitalised after a £61m expansion

The Sunday Times

A New Look for Auntie Ashmolean

Paul Levy takes a look at the new Ashmolean

Wall Street Journal

Cultures Crossed

The team behind the reinvention of Oxford's Ashmolean has written a dynamic new chapter in the history of museums, says Niall Hobhouse

Building Design

Future Classic

Jay Merrick on the Ashmolean

The Independent

Treasure Trove

Treasure Trove: Britain's oldest museum revamped - Peter Aspden reports

Financial Times

Garden of Delights: Rick Mather Architects at Stowe School

Tim Ronalds on the first building within Mather's masterplan at Stowe School

Architecture Today

Mr Collegiality

The RIBA Journal profiles Rick Mather's extensive work in the higher education sector

RIBA Journal