The Giacometti Institute was created on the initiative of the Giacometti Foundation, which owns the biggest collection of Alberto Giacometti’s works.
The Institute is the reference place for Giacometti’s work and an art history center which includes exhibitions, research and pedagogy.
With a surface area of 350 m2, the Giacometti Institute is located at 5 Rue Victor Schœlcher in the 14th arrondissement, the Montparnasse neighbourhood where Giacometti lived and worked throughout his career.
Liyang Museum is located in the southeast corner of Yan Lake Park in the new urban district, connecting an urban public space to the new nature. The organic lines and undulating mountains compose melodious music in the mountain forest. An Open Attitude welcomes people from all directions. The perfect combination of terrain tells about landscape culture and creates an oriental poetic life.
A Photographic Art Museum should be a celebration of light and how space and architecture can be crafted by the multiplicity of atmospheres and effects it is able to create when travelling through and into materials. Our proposal seeks to provide an inspiring journey through different light atmospheres which are in tune with the specific purpose of the each space.
The West Bund Museum is a new art gallery on the Shanghai Corniche, an 8.5 kilometre frontage on the northern bank of the Huangpu River. The promenade connects the Xuhui district to the historic Bund and forms a key part of the West Bund Masterplan, which envisages a new cultural district over nine square kilometres of former industrial land.
The museum occupies a triangular plot at the northernmost tip of a new public park, at the point where Longteng Avenue and the river converge. A raised public esplanade above the flood plain surrounds the building, offering views to the river. The edge of the esplanade on the east side is delineated by a continuous series of steps with landing stages leading to the riverbank. The site offered the opportunity to create a completely freestanding structure and its location allowed for improved access to both the river and the park.
The museum sits in a semi-industrial area on the periphery of Sharjah, its immediate context is a gas station, a highway and a low-density residential district.
We have filled the site with a low-rise monolithic structure covering the entire footprint of the plot. We envisage an introverted complex of solid appearance resembling a fortress. The museum is not designed as an architectural object, the site and the surroundings would not justify such an approach, we have instead proposed a porous mass which we have meticulously carved to create courtyards, alleys and passages, intertwined with the galleries and rest of the programme. An immersive experience for the visitor to subtract himself from reality.
The project site lies within the Shunfeng mountain park, embraced by picturesque lake and mountains.
To celebrate the tradition of dragon boat festival of the place, the architect has laid the primary volume of the museum above the lake, intending to create a poetic sense to bring human, architecture and nature together. Using steel as main structure for the two-storey building, the museum is in 50 meters long and 13 meters wide. Though with strong and masculine language expressed by the steel structure resembling the energy of dragon boat race, the curvy veranda and façade has instilled elegance and serenity into the architecture and bring perfect harmony to the place.
As part of an international call to design the new ‘barjeel museum for modern arab art’ in sharjah, iranian architect habibeh adjdabadi presents her concept, which was awarded honorable mention in the rifat chadirji prize 2019. conceived as an architectural and cultural landmark for the area, madjdabadi’s idea can be described as a contemporary interpretation of the BADGIR (Persian ) or barjeel the arabic name for the wind towers that are traditionally used in the region to provide ventilation in the hot desert climate.
The Museum of Modern Art has completed a renovation and expansion designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, in collaboration with Gensler, that has increased gallery space by 30%, provides visitors with a more welcoming and comfortable experience, and better connects the Museum to the urban fabric of midtown Manhattan. Launched in 2014, the first phase of renovations on the east end was completed in 2017, and the second phase of expansion on the west end is now complete and opens to the public on October 21, 2019.
The overall expansion yields a net increase in MoMA’s gallery space of one third, to approximately 165,000 square feet, allowing the Museum to exhibit significantly more art in new and interdisciplinary ways. The design optimized current spaces to be more flexible and technologically sophisticated, expanded and opened up the main lobby into a light-filled, double-height space that connects seamlessly between West 53rd and 54th Streets, and created a multitude of circulation routes with more areas for visitors to pause and reflect. The state-of-the-art Studio in the heart of the Museum and an innovative second-floor Creativity Lab invite visitors to connect with art that explores new ideas about the present, past, and future. The flagship Museum store has been lowered one level and made visible to the street through a dramatic glass wall and a new sixth-floor café includes an outdoor terrace facing 53rd Street. The clear glass façade, new street-level galleries, and a ground floor free and open to all offer increased transparency and bring art closer to people on the streets of midtown Manhattan.
53rd Street Elevation, Photography by Brett Beyer, Courtesy of Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Dallas-based OMNIPLAN Architects, announced the grand opening of one of its most prestigious projects to date, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum. The OMNIPLAN team, led by Mark Holisinger, designed the LEED certified, 55,000 square foot museum from the inside out.
The design amplifies the museum’s narrative by leading guests through a physically changing path with a series of highly experiential spaces that allow visitors to fully absorb the exhibits.
The government of the state of pernambuco designated one of the warehouses of the old port of recife and a large adjacent area for the construction of the museum. this area is located by the quay, on the island where recife city was founded, the so-called ground zero, an area which is national heritage.
In line with the urban proposition of the state and the municipal government of maintaining the old warehouses of the port and assigning new functions to them, the architectural project was developed re-adapting one of the warehouses (2.500m²) and creating a new building (5.000m²) connected to it, reinforcing the elongated layout of the constructions of the port, in order to accommodate the museum.
Contributors: Anne Dieterich, Beatriz Marques, Fabiana Paiva, Felipe Zene, Fred Meyer, Gabriel Mendonça, Gabriel Grinspum, Julio Tarragó, Luciana Dornellas, Victor Gurgel
Interns: Guilherme Tanaka, Laura Ferraz, Roberto Brotero, William Campos
Drawings for Publication: Bruno Veiga, Francielle Lopes
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