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special report: public & government buildings
BIG’s art in a cold climate
BIG + TNT Nuuk + RambollNuuk + Arkitekti is the winning team to design the new National Gallery of Greenland in the country’s capital Nuuk, among invited proposals totaling six Nordic architects.
L A gallery that stimulates our curiosity
ocated on a steep slope overlooking the most beautiful of Greenland’s fjords, the 3000 m2
National Gallery will serve as a
cultural and architectural icon for the people of Greenland. The new museum will combine historical and contem- porary art of the coun- try in one dynamic institution. Out of six proposals, including ones from Norwegian Snøhetta, Finnish Heikkinen‐Komonen, Islandic Studio Granda and Greenlandic TegnestuenNuuk, the winning proposal was selected by a unanimous vote from the museum board. “The Board has a clear vision: to work for the
‘the 3000 m2 Circular shaped gallery within the museum National Gallery
will serve as a cultural and architectural icon for the people of Greenland’
continuous project of documenting and develop- ing the Greenlandic national identity through art and culture. Our dream is a national gallery where historic and contemporary art meets circumpolar pieces, Nordic and world art in general. Our dream is an institution that stimulates our curios- ity, awakens our excitement with its thought‐ provoking design and where we all feel at home. Selecting a prominent architect as BIG, I am sure that our chances of realizing that dream are good”, Tuusi Josef Motzfeldt, Greenland’s National Gallery of Art. As a projection of a geometrically perfect cir- cle on to the steep slope, the new gallery is con- ceived as a courtyard
establishment of an internationally oriented highly professional institution that communicates the
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building that combines a pure geometrical layout with a sensitive adaption to the landscape. The three‐dimensional imprint of the landscape cre- ates a protective ring around the museum’s focal point, the sculpture garden where visitors, person- nel, exhibition merge with culture and nature, inside and outside.
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