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MoMA’s new tower gets the go-ahead
Green light for £18m
Belfast arts venue
New York City Council has approved the
Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) proposal A major £18m (US$28, 20.5m) arts
for a new 82-storey tower. complex is set to open in Belfast in
The 1,050ft (320m) mixed-use tower, 2011 after Northern Irish arts minister
designed by architect Jean Nouvel, will be Nelson McCausland announced the
located on West 53rd Street between Fifth start of construction work.
and Sixth avenues, the same Manhattan The Metropolitan Arts Centre
block on which the museum already has its (MAC), which will form part of St
main exhibition area. A spokesperson for Anne’s Square in the city’s Cathedral
MoMA said the museum will gain around Quarter, will replace the existing Old
40,000sq ft (3,716sq m) of new gallery Museum Arts Centre (OMAC) and pro-
space, a 30 percent increase. vide a new space for theatre, dance
The building plan also calls for 150 resi- and art. Facilities at the new complex
dential apartments and 100 hotel rooms. will include two black box perform-
A spokesman for the tower’s developer ance spaces with seating capacity for
has said that no decision had been taken 120 and 350 spectators respectively,
so far on when the project would get under a 1,000sq m (10,764sq ft) art gallery,
way, or how long it would take to build. a box offi ce, two rehearsal areas, two
The plan is not without its critics, who workshops as well as two white box
point out that the structure – the height exhibition spaces.
of which has been cut from the 1,250ft Resident company offi ces, a retail
(381m) originally proposed – would dwarf unit, full back and front-of-house
those buildings around it. facilities and a coffee shop will also be
MoMA opened in November 2004, with included in the complex, as part of the
architect Yoshio Taniguchi creating a series MAC, which will be delivered and man-
of galleries and public spaces designed to aged by OMAC trustees.
allow the museum to tell the story of mod- The Department for Culture, Arts
ern and contemporary art in an entirely and Leisure has awarded £10.76m
new context. Details:
www.moma.org The structure will dwarf buildings around it ($16.78, 12.2m) towards the project.
Expansion for
Opening date set for Tokyo’s art museum
St. Louis museum An opening date of 6 April 2010 has directorship of Akiya Takahashi – will
been announced for the new Mitsubishi boast a total fl oor area of around 6,000sq
The Saint Louis Art Museum in Ichigokan Museum located at the centre of m (65,000sq ft) and exhibition space
Missouri, US is to undergo its fi rst the Japanese capital city Tokyo. amounting to about 800sq m (8,600sq
major expansion in more than 20 The new museum will occupy the site ft). It will also feature a shop and a cafe.
years. Designed by London-based of a three-storey, red brick, Queen Anne Details:
www.mimt.jp
architect David Chipperfi eld, the style building on Babasaki-dori Avenue,
expansion – in excess of 200,000sq designed by British architect, Josiah
ft (18,580sq m) – will provide new Conder. Originally completed in 1894 and
galleries, public space, a 300-space subsequently demolished in 1968, the
underground car park, as well as an building was the fi rst offi ce building in the
entrance on Fine Arts Drive. city’s Marunouchi area, which is now part
The project will result in a 30 per- of Tokyo’s fi nancial district.
cent increase in the museum’s gallery The project has aimed to replicate the
and public space, and will more than original building of the Meiji (October
double its current parking capacity. 1868 – July 1912) and Taisho (July 1912 –
As part of the project, the historic December 1926) periods by using parts of
Cass Gilbert building will be improved, the original plans and materials.
with 13,000sq ft (1,200sq m) of space Focusing on modern and contempo-
renovated for permanent collection rary Western art from the mid-18th to
galleries, education, and public use. 20th centuries, the museum – under the The museum will open in April
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