Il Centre Pompidou arriva a New York

 

Da diversi anni il Centre Pompidou sta sviluppando una progettazione di espansione delle sua proposta. E dopo aver aperto una sede a Malaga nel 2015, e poi a Bruxelles, nel 2018 seguita dalla postazione di Shanghai nel 2019, ora è la volta di New York, per la precisione di Jersey City nel cuore della grande mela. 

Il progetto degli spazi sarà realizzato per il 2024 dallo studio OMA di Rem Koolhaas e sarà collocato nell'area del porto, promotore dell'iniziativa. 

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Scheduled to open in early 2024, the Centre Pompidou × Jersey City museum will become an all-new leading international cultural hub located at the heart of historic Journal Square, serving as a dynamic destination for residents and attracting visitors from all over the region, reflecting the energy and diversity of Jersey City’s burgeoning arts community.

The Centre Pompidou will provide its expertise to create an ambitious program emphasizing education via hands-on artistic and cultural experiences, with a community component central to Jersey City’s ambitious and inclusive vision for the future, making the Centre Pompidou × Jersey City a promising multidisciplinary art laboratory for cultural and educational programming.

With the addition of exclusive exhibitions created with the modern and contemporary art masterpieces from the Paris Centre Pompidou’s collection, as well as tailor-made and diversified events at the crossroads of all disciplines, the Centre Pompidou × Jersey City’s cultural agenda (to be revealed at a later date) will offer an effervescent fusion of art and ideas.

In 2018, the Fulop Administration acquired the Pathside Building, located in the heart of one of the busiest transportation hubs in the tri-state area, and a 15-minute PATH train ride from both Lower Manhattan and Newark Penn Station. The City purchased the 58,000 square-feet building (5,400 square-meters). While the building was slated for residential units at the time, the Fulop Administration made a commitment to instead try to optimize the building to establish Jersey City as a larger destination for the arts.

The international partnership being announced today is the culmination of a strategic plan and cultural partner search by the creative consultants Jersey City had hired in 2019, OMA New York, led by Partner Jason Long. This effort included both engagement with the Jersey City community and discussions with a number of potential partners both within and outside the US. Centre Pompidou’s history as an institution dedicated to multiple forms of contemporary art and culture, its dedication to education and cultural organizations match Jersey City’s and the community’s ambitions for the building. In the coming months, OMA /Jason Long will work with Jersey City and the Centre Pompidou on the design of the Centre Pompidou × Jersey City within the historic Pathside Building.

Developed in close collaboration with local creatives and residents, inviting international art professionals as well as prospecting for emerging talents from all walks of life, the Centre Pompidou × Jersey City future program will appeal to the broadest and most diverse possible audiences, offering a unique form of cultural outreach in the City, the State and far beyond, to address today’s changes in society, perfectly embodied by Jersey City’s exciting transformations.  

New Museum sempre più New!

E' appena passato un decennio, da quando il  New Museum apriva la sua sede nel quartiere di Bowery nel 2007,  che ora il museo si rinnova e amplia con un progetto ideato dallo studio OMA, i soldi come sempre piovono mentre più difficile la situazione col personale che proprio in questo periodo sta manifestando per un salario più equo.

Dal sito OMA

The New Museum announced today plans for its second building, designed by OMA / Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas in collaboration with Cooper Robertson. This will be OMA’s first public building in New York City.

The new structure will complement and respect the integrity of the adjoining SANAA-designed flagship building, while asserting its own distinct identity. The seven story, 60,000 square foot building will include three floors of galleries, doubling the Museum’s exhibition space, along with additional space for the Museum’s many community and education programs, a permanent home for NEW INC, as well as increased public amenities and improved vertical circulation.

“Since the New Museum opened on the Bowery in December 2007, the Museum has become an international cultural destination welcoming millions of visitors,” said Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director. “We are thrilled to work with OMA to address our current and future needs, and selected them for their exceptional response to our brief, their civic passion, and future thinking. The OMA design will provide seamless connectivity and horizontal flow between the two buildings, expanded space for our world renowned exhibitions, and access to some of our most innovative programs that the public currently cannot see.”

OMA Partner Shohei Shigematsu said: “Our new building establishes its own distinct identity yet it is highly connected to the existing museum. The new New Museum will be a synergistic pair working spatially and programmatically in tandem, offering a repertoire of spaces to match the institution’s curatorial ambitions and diverse programs. A counterpart to the existing tower’s verticality and solidity, the new building will expand the galleries horizontally and reveal the vertical circulation through a transparent facade. We wanted to create a highly public face—starting from the exterior plaza and atrium stair to terraced multipurpose rooms at the top—that will be a conduit of art and activities that provides an openness to engage Bowery and the city beyond.”

The OMA building will replace the current 50,000 square foot building at 231 Bowery which was acquired nearly twelve years ago to provide additional space for expanded programs. During that time, the Museum has steadily used the building to capacity for a range of activities including additional gallery space, the Museum’s cultural incubator NEW INC, office space for Rhizome and IdeasCity, studio space for artists, archives, and back-of-house staging, prep, and storage.

Following extensive research and study of many options, including renovating the existing building, the Museum concluded that new, ground up construction would be the most efficient way, both spatially and financially, to fulfill the Museum’s needs and civic purpose.  The OMA building will improve vertical circulation with the addition of an atrium stair, which will offer views over the surrounding neighborhood. The stair and new entry align to the terminus of Prince Street, opening up the museum to the city. The building will also provide three new elevators (two of which are dedicated to galleries) and additional public spaces and services, including an expanded lobby and bookstore, an upper level forum connecting to the existing Skyroom, and a new 80-seat restaurant. The building also provides space for a more efficient organization of vital back of house, storage, and office space.

Adding a total of 10,096 sq. feet of exhibition space, the new galleries will connect with the existing galleries on three levels (second, third, and fourth floors), with the ceiling heights aligning on each floor, creating expanded space for exhibitions and horizontal flow between the buildings. The expanded spaces can be used singularly across the floor-plate to host larger exhibitions or separately for diversity and curatorial freedom. The organization of new galleries and program spaces will support a stronger integration between exhibition programs, education, research, residencies and community outreach programs will help expand the Museum’s audiences.

“The building gives us the opportunity to continue to experiment with new formats and models around various areas of programmatic focus,” said Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director. “These areas include new productions and ambitious new commissions; contextual exhibition presentations; studio space for artist residencies; and international partnerships and collaborations with peer institutions around the world.”

The layout of the building program is as follows: lower levels devoted to back of house and storage; the ground floor to feature a new restaurant, expanded lobby, and bookstore, along with a public plaza set back at street level; second, third, and fourth floors for galleries; fifth floor for NEW INC; sixth floor for an artist-in-residence studio, as well as a forum for events and gathering, which leads to the seventh floor for Education programming and additional events; and an atrium stair on the west façade, connecting each of the floors, along with an elevator core at the front and rear.

The new building’s façade is another notable attribute of OMA’s design. Using a laminated glass with metal mesh, the façade will provide a simple, unified exterior alongside the SANAA building, with a material that recalls and complements the SANAA façade, yet allows for a higher degree of transparency. The OMA building will communicate the activities of the Museum outwards while creating a more inviting presence drawing the public inwards.

The New Museum has received a lead gift of $20M from longtime trustee Toby Devan Lewis, the largest gift in the Museum’s history. The Museum will recognize Lewis’s leadership role at the New Museum by naming the new building in her honor, as announced today by James Keith Brown, The New Museum’s Board President.

Inaugura la Fondation Galeries Lafayette a Parigi

A Parigi il 10 Marzo aprirà, dopo tre anni di lavori dello studio OMA, la sede della Fondation Galeries Lafayette nel cuore del Marais a Parigi, in un stupenda palazzina ristruttura con le più moderne tecnologie. 

La mostra di apertura si intitolerà "The silence of the sea" con l'artista Lutz Bacher. 

CS A late 19th century industrial building will be refurbished for Fondation d'Entreprise Galeries Lafayette to house exhibition and production spaces, with a focus on creation, innovation and research. OMA proposes to insert an exhibition tower into the courtyard of the building in which two sets of mobile platforms will offer a large repertoire of spatial configurations; the programmatic flexibility provided will increase the potential of the existing building. A production centre at the heart of the site underpins the Fondation, while the ground floor becomes a passage connecting rue du Plâtre to rue Sainte-Croix de la Bretonnerie and hosts the public programs.

The site is located in Le Marais, in the heart of Paris, surrounded by artists, craftsmen, ateliers and workshops. This area, in immediate proximity of the Centre Pompidou, is one of the oldest neighborhoods of the city and its distinctive architecture is protected by a heritage preservation plan. The project is based around the renovation of one of Groupe Galeries Lafayette's historical properties - a former industrial building, erected in 1891 by the founder of BHV department store. The five-storey, U-shaped, courtyard building offers an elegant industrial façade on Rue du Plâtre, while at the rear a covered public passage provides access to the neighboring rue Sainte-Croix de la Bretonnerie.

OMA was commissioned in 2012 to transform the existing structure into a production and exhibition centre to host the Fondation d'Entreprise Galeries Lafayette, while respecting and preserving the building's heritage. The architectural concept was derived from the need for flexibility - a common requirement for cultural institutions - and from the restrictions applied to the site by the City Heritage authorities. During the design process, the area covered by the heritage preservation increased, limiting possible interventions. The consequence was an intensification of the architectural scheme.

The 19th century building will be fully preserved, cleaned and restored to its initial state, and a new exhibition tower will be inserted to fill the footprint of the courtyard (ca.100m²). The tower will feature two mobile floors that can each split into two unequal parts, thus creating four independent platforms. Using onboard motorisation, the platforms will move along a rack and pinion system, to align to the various existing floor levels. Accessible from the original openings onto the courtyard, the new exhibition spaces of the tower will extend and articulate the existing spaces; the mobile floors offer a new curatorial dimension, complementing the traditional use of the preserved structure.

Located in the basement is a production centre for the arts, a fundamental component of the institution, where invited artists conceive and build their projects. This, combined with the exhibition tower will trigger new ideas and new works; artists will develop projects according to a selected arrangement of the mobile platforms. The total area of the building is 2500 m2.

Facebook village

Facebook continua ad espandersi nel suo progetto fisico e dopo aver coinvolto Frak O.Ghery per il suo centro polifunzionale amplia ora il suo campus con lo studio OMA di Rem Koolhaas. 

Un villaggio di 160.000 mq fra uffici di servizi, ristoranti e infrastrutture varie (farmacie, bar, supermercato etc..).

Il progetto sarà realizzato per il 2021

Concrete

Da pochi giorni lo studio OMA ha completato un nuovo spazio culturale a Dubai nell'area Al Qouz,  si chiama "Concrete" è sarà un luogo per polivalente per diverse tipologie di proposte, dalle mostre a fiere più tecnologiche . 

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Concrete at Alserkal Avenue

Located in Dubai’s Al Qouz industrial area, Alserkal Avenue was founded in 2007 with the aim of promoting cultural initiatives in the region. Since then, it has become Dubai’s most important art hub with twenty-five galleries and art spaces. Concrete, a new venue, addresses the districts growing need for a centrally located public space which can host a diverse program.

The 1,250 m2 former warehouse provides a multi-purpose venue to accommodate a series of public events, including exhibitions, performances, lectures, and fashion shows. The planning strategy focused on maximizing the event area. All the services were consolidated on one end of the building, allowing the entrance and event spaces to be situated closer to The Yard, the district’s main outdoor public square.  

Interior design

The design for the interior introduces a flexible floor plan to accommodate the required program diversity. Four 8.10 m pivoting and sliding walls can create multiple space configurations depending on the type of event. To maintain a fluid space, all the major interior equipment has been integrated into the ceiling, leaving the walls and floors free of any components.

Two linear skylights have been positioned above the movable walls to allow either thin blades of light or full daylight depending on the configuration.

Exterior design

The original front façade of the ware-house has been replaced with poly-carbonate cladding and full height operable doors. When the doors are open, the exterior and interior space can merge, activating the courtyard. The connection to the exterior is reinforced by the translucent poly-carbonate, which brings the view, daylight and outdoor activities into the interior space.

The rest of the original façade has been maintained and sprayed in a customized mix of concrete with glass and mirror aggregates. The rough texture of the spayed concrete and reflections from the glass and mirror aggregates will make the venue stand out in the context of Alserkal Avenue.

Cultura al presente, la nuova Fondazione Prada a Milano

Luccica al sole una torre dorata, attrazione di sguardi e di pensieri.

La circondano diversi edifici dai materiali più quotidiani.

Moltitudine di possibilità culturali che prendono forma in questo stupendo polo della conoscenza che la Fondazione Prada ha coraggiosamente proposto alla contesto sociale di Milano, ma non solo.

Un riflettente cinema, una grande cisterna per magici trittici, un lungo cammino di opere d'arte.

Una "casa degli spiriti" con pregiati interventi di artisti di fama internazionale.

Uno spazio multifunzionale per proposte temporanee, con un piacevole bar d'antan, un centro per la didattica infantile, il tutto corredato prossimamente da una tecnologica torre polifunzionale. 

Un luogo da vivere quotidianamente, attraversare, sostarci per seguire il ricco programma di proposte, come la serie di prossimi interventi performativi a Settembre o le future rassegne dedicate al cinema. 

Per cui non perdetevi le newsletter della Fondazione e godetene le varie proposte

Info http://www.fondazioneprada.org/

 

Prossimamente Prada

Manca meno di un anno all’apertura del nuovo museo della Fondazione Prada che prenderà forma in largo Isarco.

Si tratterà di una serie di edifici del primo novecento riqualificati secondo un progetto dello studio Oma, Office of Metropolitan Architecture,  che da diversi anni opera con noto gruppo di moda milanese.

Il progetto di Rem Koolhaas prevede una serie di spazi per diverse situazioni culturali, dalle conferenze alle mostre passando per sfilate, incontri, programmazioni di film.

Cent'anni sotto una leggendaria cupola...

In occasione del 100° anniversario della costruzione della Cupola della Galeries Lafayette celebre questo monumento sul Boulevard Haussmann, un o dei più bei simbolo architettonici Art Nouveau di Parigi. I grandi magazzini chiamano l'architetto Rem Koolhaas  e il suo studio OMA con l'artista Yann Kersalé.

Realizzando così l'intervento "1912-2012. Cronache di un viaggio creativo ".

Una mostra che espone il percorso centinaio della tradizione e cultura delle Galeries Lafayette. Un mix fra la storia dello shopping e quella della cupola di vetro colorata, costruito nel 1912 dall'architetto Ferdinando Chanut e dal maestro vetraio Jacques Gruber.

Immergendosi negli archivi della Galeries Lafayette, AMO ha ricostruito una cronaca di mutazioni di questo grande leggendario magazzino. Attraverso la storia della moda e del commercio.