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Sunday, October 19, 2014

greatest new museums


Biomuseo, Panama City
Frank Gehry’s latest project opened in Panama this month. Sitting at the entrance of the Panama Canal, the Biomuseo is the American architect’s first work in Latin America. Famed for his Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, Gehry has again created an “eye-catcher on a bravura scale”; the 4000-square-metre building has eight galleries and is meant to represent the Panamanian landmass rising out of the ocean to bring together the continents of north and south America
Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing
Steven Holl follows up his Nelson-Atkins extension in Kansas City with a project aiming to recreate the “parallel perspectives” characteristic of Chinese paintings. The Sifang Art Museum in Nanjing was inspired by artists who rejected the single-point perspective of Western painters, creating “a sense of mystery about the space”, according to Holl. Opening in November 2013, and co-designed by Chinese architect Li Hu, the museum winds up from a base covered in bamboo-formed concrete to an upper gallery that offers a view of Nanjing. 
MuCEM, Marseille
The first museum dedicated to the cultures of the Mediterranean opened in 2013, part of the celebration of the European Capitals of Culture. Designed by the Algerian-born French architect Rudy Ricciotti, MuCEM cost 191m Euros and features a soaring walkway from its monolithic structure to the 17th Century Fort St John. Ornamental concrete provides a filigree surrounding the building, which Ricciotti has described as a “vertical casbah”. He says: “Open to the sea, it draws a horizon where the two shores of the Mediterranean can meet.”
Chang Ucchin Museum, South Korea
At the meeting point of two rivers south of Seoul, Korean studio Chae Pereira Architects have created a mountainside building shaped like a knot. The museum, dedicated to the artist Chang Ucchin, is inspired by his work and aims to create “a space that would reflect the painting's own character”. Four wings frame different views of the landscape, with forms generated from several of Ucchin’s paintings, combining modern aesthetics with traditional details. One of the architects, Laurent Pereira, told Dezeen: “It is a kind of soft labyrinth, with visual shortcuts and unexpected tensions, but with very plain shapes and few details.” 

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