Architecture

ROME - A huge museum for contemporary arts and architecture opens in Rome this weekend in a bid to draw avant-garde art lovers to a city defined by its ancient monuments and Baroque fountains.

BERLIN - Berlin's Jewish Museum says it is expanding to meet increasing demand for research and education.

METZ, France - It's France's newest architectural wonder, and it looks something like an enormous white floppy sun hat.

LOS ANGELES - Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, a duo of Japanese architects praised for using everyday building materials to create ethereal structures that shelter flowing, dreamlike spaces, have won the 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's jury announced Sunday.