Mimesis Museum- Paju Book City, South Korea
Name: Mimesis Museum
Location: Paju Book City, South Korea
Address: 37.7169266 N,126.6888199 E
Architects: Alvaro Siza, Castanheira & Bastai Arquitectos Associados, and Jun Sung Kim
Collaborators: Chungheon Han, and João Figueiredo
Structural Engineers: Gayoon ENC
M&E Engineers: Hansan Engineering Co.
Construction: Hanool Construction Company
Size: 4,000 sqm
Year: 2009
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AE Interest:
-Built for a book publisher’s private art collection; the concrete form was inspired by a curled up cat; lighting comes from rafted ceilings which counter and contrast the curved walls of the structure [2]; uses a semi-complex marriage between a curved form and a rectilinear form to isolate the interior from the surrounding landscape and to create an open and interactive courtyard.
Museum of Contemporary Art – Sydney, Australia
Building: Museum of Contemporary Art
Location: Sydney, Australia
Architect: Sam Marshall
Completion: 2011
AE Interests: A museum renovation (addition) that was designed to look like a place that houses contemporary art (unlike the old 1950s Art Deco revival structure). Made up of boxes of large thin panels of precast painted concrete and glass. Located on the Sydney harbor it is already a tourist magnet.
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Cartier Foundation – Paris, France `
Building: Cartier Foundation
Location: 261 Boulevard Raspail, 75014 Paris, France
Architect: Jean Nouvel
Structural: Arup
Completed 1994
AE Interests: Steel and glass, transparency, reflection
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Louvre Branch Museum – Abu Dhabi
Building: Louvre Branch Museum
Location: Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi
Completion: 2017
Architect: Jean Nouvel
Structural Engineering: Buro Happold
AE Interests: The museum is part of a US$27 billion project on Saadiyat Island which will also include a Guggenheim museum.
183m floating dome-roof filters sunlight: steel tubular trusses support the roof shape, screening is made of stainless steel and aluminum layers. See article below.
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