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NC gallery to open new extension
The new 12,000sq m building will be located on Quebec’s main promenade
OMA wins Quebec museum competition
Netherlands-based The Offi ce for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has won a competition for a major expansion to the Musee national des beaux-arts du Quebec (MNBAQ) in Quebec, Canada. The 12,000sq m (129,000sq ft) new building is scheduled to open in 2013 and will be situated at the point where down- town Quebec City meets Battlefi elds Park and form the company’s fi rst built project in Canada. The design, led by OMA part- ners Shohei Sigematsu and Rem Koolhaas in collaboration with associate Jason Long,
Modern art gallery for Kolkata
Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron have been commissioned to design the Kolkata Museum of Modern Art (KMOMA) in Calcutta, India. The US$50m (£30.6m, 34.4m) project will be built on a 10-acre plot that was donated by the Indian govern- ment, which is also providing US$32m (£21m, 24m) of the funding. The 300,000sq ft (28,000sq m) museum will exhibit a collection ranging from 19th century to art to con- temporary art. The KNOMA Trust was set up 2003 to develop the museum. One of its trustees, Rakhi Sarkar, told
a press conference that: “The museum will have four separate wings, with each one exhibiting works of art from the dif- ferent regions of the globe.”
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was chosen unanimously from fi ve submis- sions. The expansion – linked underground with MNBAQ’s three existing buildings – is located on Quebec’s main promenade, Grande-Allée, adjacent to St. Dominique Church. The design aims to integrate the building with the surrounding park and initi- ate new links with the city. Three stacked galleries of decreasing size will house contemporary exhibitions, the permanent contemporary collec- tion and design/Inuit exhibits as well as a 14m-high (46ft) Grand Hall.
The North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, US, will open its 127,000sq ft (11,800sq m) extension to the public on 24 April. The new single-storey building, designed by New York-based Thomas Phifer of Thomas Phifer and Partners, was created specifi cally to showcase the gallery’s permanent collection of more than 5,000 pieces of art span- ning antiquity to the present day. Surrounded by sculpture gardens and pools, the expansion project will also transform the Museum’s 1983 East Building, designed by the architect Edward Durell Stone, into a centre for temporary exhibitions, education and public programmes, and public events, as well as a place for collections management and other administrative functions. Upon completion, the 164-acre
campus will be one of the US’s largest art museum parks, with walking paths, bike trails, ecological projects con- ceived with artists, and site-specifi c commissioned works of art in a rolling green landscape.
The McManus art gallery reopens
The McManus art gallery in Dundee, Scotland, has reopened following a £12m (US$18.5m, 13.5m) redevelopment. The main entrance to the attraction has been completely redeveloped, and inside the gallery spaces have been upgraded
with interactive displays and visitor sta- tions. A new retail and café area has been added, complete with an outdoor terrace; a new top-lit atrium. There is also a new creative learning
suite, catering for outreach programmes as well as inhouse workshops and classes. Much more emphasis has been placed
in interactivity, with a number of displays being added to the existing collections. The works were funded in partnership
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by Dundee City Council, the Heritage Lottery Fund, the European Union, Historic Scotland, and The McManus Fundraising Appeal. To celebrate the opening, a new exhi- bition – called The Making of Modern Dundee – has been opened. The gallery charts the rapidly-changing city from 1850 to the present day, including the skeleton of the famous Tay Whale.
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