Lithuania’s government Wednesday approved the construction of a new museum in its capital, Vilnius, a joint project between the Baltic state, Russia’s renowned Hermitage museum and America’s Guggenheim. The museum is due to open in 2013, in a building designed by the acclaimed Anglo-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid whose project was chosen in a bidding process earlier this year. The building appears like a mystical object floating above the extensive artificial landscape strip, seemingly defying gravity by exposing dramatic undercuts towards the surrounding entrance plazas.

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