Art Gallery Design | Firstsite Contemporary Art | Colchester | United Kingdom |

As the first effort in the revitalization of Colchester’s historic St. Botolph’s Quarter, firstsite:newsite anchors the long-term development plan of an under-utilized district. Rafael Viñoly Architects won the design competition for this new visual arts facility by expanding on the project brief, which would have destroyed the historic character of St. Anne’s Church. Once the construction site was moved eastward, the new museum was designed to create extra public space and parkland and to maintain and showcase local heritage sites, including early Roman ruins, while making a visually striking architectural statement.

To the north, a crescent-shaped building wraps around an eighteenth-century Victorian garden. The building roof, which slopes slightly upward in line with the site topography, culminates in a monumental portico that frames the lobby with full-height glazing. To the south, the outside arc of the crescent faces a small Victorian garden and an intact Roman wall that defines the site boundary. Modern in both form and cladding (the exterior consists of a distinctive gold-hued skin of copper-and-aluminum alloy panels), the building adopts the site’s axial geometry and the approximate height of the neighboring buildings. A concrete raft foundation allows the structure to rest on the ground and leave buried archaeological remains undisturbed, with no deep excavation required......more

Art Gallery Design | Michael White River Gallery | Brumadinho | Brazil | Arquitetos Associados

Located in a sloped site surrounded by the forest, this pavilion redesigns topography to diminish the visible mass of the building, while defining a cantilevered structure that visually floats over the terrain. An entrance area is defined in half level with the two main exhibition spaces. Treated as a continuation of the exterior area, the covered plaza configures a transitional space that organizes flows, houses facilities and allows visual interaction with the underground square room, located 4.5 meters below. The other exhibition space, on the other hand, is a closed regular pavilion on the upper floor, defined by the corten steel volume.......more

Art Gallery Design | Greenland National Gallery for Art | Greenland | BIG

Greenland National Gallery for Art will play a signifi cant role for the citizens of Greenland and the inhabitants of Nuuk as a cultural, social, political, urban and architectural focal point.Greenland National Gallery for Art will combine the art history of Greenland and contemporary art in one dynamic institution that communicates the continuous project of documenting and developing the Greenlandic national identity through art and culture.
With its urban location and direct connection to landscape and nature there will be a rich opportunity to incorporate the Greenlandic nature as well as the surrounding urbanity. The gallery will be one common exhibition space that can be divided into many smaller galleries and accommodate changing exhibitions, but will clearly and unambiguously collect all Greenlandic and cirkumpolare artistic expression under one roof.........more

Temporary Art Hall Berlin | PIERRE JORGE GONZALEZ / JUDITH HAASE / ATELIER ARCHITECTURE and SCENOGRAPHY

Parallel to the art market boom and the surge of blockbuster exhibitions, contemporary art centres of numerous European art metropolises increasingly understand themselves as places for critical realism and utopistic inclusion. In the light of intensified social polarisation and the growing relevance of creativity as a mean of intercultural and economic productivity, those art centres claim to open artistic processes of production and reception to all kind of social groupings......more

Saatchi Gallery Duke of York Square, London | Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

The brief from the Saatchi Gallery was that the display of the collection should be paramount and that the architectural details of the interiors should be suppressed in favour of an absolutely minimal set of elegant white spaces with an understandable geometry and visual connectivity. Everything had to be subservient to the art itself.

Much of the early design work centred on an analysis of the office scheme and its almost total conversion to gallery. The principal locations of stairs and lifts were fixed and by the time the gallery agreed to lease the building, the exteriors of the new extension had already been designed in detail by PDP/Cadogan in a style complimentary to the rest of their adjacent Duke of York’s mixed use scheme. There was no opportunity for AHMM to bring any influence to bear on the architecture of the new extension. Planning permission had been obtained after long negotiation with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and there was no time within a tight building programme to restart that process......more

Gallery | Circa on Jellicoe | studioMAS

INTRODUCTION
The new free standing gallery annex is a functional extension of the existing gallery, located in Rosebank. The building consists of a single flexible gallery space, storage, business lounge, offices and patio roof. It is designed to display modes of art such as video installations and large scale sculptures and can host global art auctions. In addition the building may be made available as a multipurpose space for public and private functions or events that will elevate its public stature.

RATIONALE
The building responds to the global resources debate in that will be largely self servicing. Electricity is produced on site using solar voltaic panels, harvested rain water is used for all but drinking water, and solar heated hot water will be used for space heating. Council energy and water is connected only as a backup measure. The oval shape of the building renders the most floor space for façade and gives it its distinctive form. Various aluminum extrusions resembling reeds give the building its unique architectural character.

COMPLETION DATE
2009
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Multi-Functional Cultural Centre and Art Gallery | The Public | West Bromwich, United Kingdom | Will Alsop

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Architect: Will Alsop
Project Type: Cultural Centers/Art Galleries
Design: 2004
Realization: 2008
Link: www.alsoparchitects.com

Project Description:
The structure, designed to accommodate many initiatives related to local and international art, was conceived as a real "box of wonders" whose role is to encourage creativity. Hence the idea of a multiplicity of spaces, shapes, curvilinear shapes and playful atmosphere.

The black leather of the parallelepiped (113m x 21m x 22m) is countered by the color red strawberry in a series of windows, whose shape evokes the strange softness of Giuggioli. Is the same color as the base of the structure, whose windows allow a view inside. Here the simplicity of the exterior gives way to the complexity of large objects with curvilinear geometry suspended from the ceiling, a series of elevators and a staircase that links the different spaces.

A structure composed of 13 pairs of hollow steel columns filled with concrete support the main floor located on the third level. Here elements of steel that develops a bump, offer support for the cover. The envelope was designed as a self-supporting structure, and thus independent of the primary: "Structurally - Will Alsop says - can be described as a light box which is a series of sculptural forms. These surround the plans that are supported by the main structure of columns in steel and cement. "

Herzog & de Meuron | Schaulager | Basel Switzerland

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The architects Herzog & de Meuron designed an unusual space for Schaulager. Their task was to design a warehouse for the open storage of contemporary art that had optimal climatic conditions and was available by appointment. The building was also intended to be a site for conservation, research and dissemination. Rather than an anonymous warehouse, the spacious building was to be conceived so as to produce a specific and unique place.

At 7,250 square metres, art storage on the three upper stories occupies the bulk of the total area of 16,500 square metres. There are 3,650 square metres on the ground floor and in the basement available for exhibitions. The permanent installations by Robert Gober and Katharina Fritsch occupy 260 and 390 square metres, respectively. The administration occupies 800 square metres. The art handling department and the workshops occupy another 800 square metres. The 144-seat auditorium and the seminar room occupy 250 square metres. The remaining 3,100 square metres are for technical and other facilities.

Schaulager is the home for the works in the collection of the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation that are not currently on exhibition. It is a new kind of space for art. It is neither museum nor a traditional warehouse. Schaulager is first and foremost a response to the old and new needs for the storage of works of the visual arts. It dispenses with box storage and transforms the foyers of the exhibition halls into autonomous facilities, independent of any museum, with specific qualities and functions. It is a pilot programme that allows works of art to lead their own lives behind the curtains, a life that does not simply consist of an endless wait for public presentation.

Photographs:Margherita Spiluttini

The Lois and Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art | Cincinnati ,USA | Zaha Hadid

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Architectural Design:Zaha Hadid
Associate Architect:KZF Incorporated, Cincinnati
Donald L. Cornett, Mark Stedtefeld
Building Footprint:11,000 square feet
Total Area:80,000 square feet
Project Cost:$34 million(including land acquisition and endowment)
Groundbreaking:May 2001
Completion:Spring 2003

Interior Breakdown:

Lower Level:
Performance space: 2,366 sf
Lobby: 1,160 sf Entry Level:Lobby: 3,512 sf
Reception: 184 sf
Museum shop: 960 sf

Second Floor:Galleries: 6,145 sf

Third Floor:Offices: 3,737 sf

Fourth Floor:Galleries: 5,442 sf
Offices: 1,379 sf
Board Room: 834 sf
Terrace: 381sf

Fifth Floor:Members' Room: 540 sf
Galleries: 4,854 sf

Sixth Floor:UnMuseum: 6,621 sf

Total Gallery Space: 16,441 sf
Performance Space: 2,366 sf
Education Space: 6,621 sf
Total Building Square Footage:82,265 sf
Text and Drawings from:CAC
Photographs:Roland Halbe

Niterói Contemporary Art Museum | Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Oscar Niemeyer | Marcela Grassi

The Niterói Contemporary Art Museum (Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói — MAC) is situated in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and is one of the city’s main landmarks. Designed by Oscar Niemeyer with the assistance of structural engineer Bruno Contarini, who had worked with Niemeyer on earlier projects, the MAC-Niterói is 16 meters high; its cupola has a diameter of 50 meters with three floors. The museum projects itself over Boa Viagem (“Bon Voyage,” “Good Journey”), the 817-square meter reflecting pool that surrounds the cylindrical base “like a flower,” in the words of Niemeyer. A wide access slope leads to a Hall of Expositions, which has a capacity for sixty people. Two doors lead to the viewing gallery, through which can be seen the Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, and Sugarloaf Mountain. The saucer-shaped modernist structure, which has been likened to a UFO, is set on a cliffside, at the bottom of which is a beach. In the film Oscar Niemeyer, an architect committed to his century (Marc Henri Wajnberg, 2000), Niemeyer is seen flying over Rio de Janeiro in a UFO, which then lands on the site, suggesting this as the origin of the museum.
Photographs:Marcela Grassi

Studio Weil | Mallorca, Spain | Daniel Libeskind

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Studio Weil is a painting and sculpture studio designed and built for the American painter and sculptor Barbara Weil in Mallorca, Spain. Daniel Libeskind worked closely with Ms. Weil to create a building which not only responds to the surrounding landscape, but also forms a space which complements and contrasts the artist’s work. The unique gallery, workshop and storage spaces are an unprecendented fusion of the architectural with art: a fusion where the architecture in its form, materiality and geometry illuminates, complements and gives voice to the art of Barbara Weil. The Studio was completed in 2003 in collaboration with Goccisa.

Completion: 2003
Opening: 2003
Client: Barbara Weil
Building Address:
CMO. San Carlos
Port d'Andratx
Mallorca
Spain

Technical Details:

Building Area: 430 sq.m. (4628 sq.ft.)
Structure: Reinforced concrete
Credits:
Joint Venture Partner: Jaime Vidal Contesi
Structural Engineers:Adolfo Alonso Dura, Gracia Lopez Pationo
Lighting Designer:Studio Dinnebier
Contractor:Goccisa
Source:Studio Daniel Libeskind

Art Gallery | Australian Centre for Contemporary Art | South Melbourne, Australia | Wood Marsh Pty. Ltd. Architecture

The Malthouse Development forms a precinct with the existing Malthouse Building which houses the Playbox Threatres. The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Chunky Move and Playbox make up the user group's for the new building. The ACCA has four gallery spaces off an entry foyer with service areas and office space. Chunky Move comprises two rehersal studios and administration space and Playbox has a large set construction facility. A courtyard with amphitheatre is created at the centre of the overall complex with an outdoor exhibition space along the northern boundary.

DETAILS

Location
SOUTH MELBOURNE, VIC
Architect
Wood Marsh Pty. Ltd. Architecture
Contact address:
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Project Team
Project architect: Wood Marsh Pty Ltd Architecture
Design architect: Wood Marsh Pty Ltd Architecture
Project manager: Mr. Jon Shields, Major Projects Victoria
Developer: Arts Victoria
Structural consultant: JMP
Civil consultant: JMP
Electrical consultant: Lincoln Scott
Mechanical consultant: Lincoln Scott
Landscape consultant: Wood Marsh Pty Ltd Architecture
Interior designer: Wood Marsh Pty Ltd Architecture
Lighting consultant: Vision Design
Acoustic consultant: Bassett Acoustics
Quantity consultant: Slattery Australia Pty Ltd
Builder: L U Simon
Other Team Members : Pels Innes Nielson Kosloff

Photos: Peter Bennetts
Text:Australian Institute Of Architects