HERZOG & DE MEURON 073
Right 1111 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, Florida reinvents the idea of what a car park should be
Below The curvaceous extension of the Stadtcasino in Basel, Switzerland
Outside, a modular terracotta cladding system referencing traditional Chinese roofs covers the building’s facade. Te glazed tiles, made in Chianti, Italy, form an undulating dark green curtain, which shifts in hue depending on the time of day and weather conditions. Inside are 17,000 m sq of exhibition space across 33 galleries, which, the architects say, ‘embraces the entire spectrum of spaces…from conventional white cube, reconfigurable spaces, screening rooms and multipurpose facilities, to so-called third spaces.’ Te interior spaces are largely characterised by a mixture of textured wood, bamboo and concrete finishes while the galleries boast polished wood floors and large windows with views across the harbour. Delayed because of the pandemic, M+ finally opened its doors in November 2021 with six thematic exhibitions curated from the museum’s contemporary collection (much of it donated by Uli Sigg, a prominent Swiss collector of Chinese contemporary art). In its first full year, M+ reported 2,034,331 visitors,
placing it 18th in Te Art Newspaper’s recently published table of the world’s most-visited art museums.
Herzog & de Meuron’s presentation at the Royal Academy is their first exhibition in London for 20 years. Curated by Vicky Richardson in close collaboration with the architects, the show allows visitors to experience a diverse yet specific range of fully realised and in-progress projects through films, plans, models, prototypes, photographs, material samples and even augmented reality, which will bring the architects’ work to life through digital animations. Te opening room features a selection of around 400 objects from the firm’s archive and research space in Basel known as Kabinett. Containing archival materials associated with the firm’s projects since 1978, Kabinett is housed in Herzog & de Meuron’s Helsinki Dreispitz building. Te architects consider the space as a publicly accessible showroom, and it also exhibits works from their own art collection as well as from the extraordinary photographic
RUEDI WALTI
MARGHERITA SPILUTTINI
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