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MVRDV's Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen opens, giving the. Herzog & de Meuron unveils design for art museum facing the. Herzog & de Meuron's M+ museum in Hong Kong opens to the public Herzog & de Meuron reveals second Vancouver Art Gallery. SANAA to reconstruct Moscow's Hexagon pavilion for Garage Museum Photography is by Christoph Musiol, unless stated. The British architect also refurbished the Neues Museum, which was originally also designed by Schlüter. Nearby the Humboldt Forum David Chipperfield recently completed the James Simon Galerie on Museum Island, which is fronted with a stone facade with slim columns. The museum is expected to open to the public in early 2021. The Humboldt Forum opened digitally this week as its official physical opening was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
It will also contain shops, restaurants and office space and be topped by a roof terrace and restaurant, which will open in 2021. Wrapped around these courtyard spaces the building will contain four floors of exhibition, performance, and event spaces. Historical details on the facades have been reconstructed. Related story David Chipperfield completes colonnaded stone gallery at entrance to Berlin's Museum IslandĪt the other end of the building, the open-air Schlüterhof courtyard has three facades reconstructed to Schlüter's original baroque designs.īetween these two large spaces, a third smaller courtyard that is lined with bookshops and cafes runs through the building and will be open 24 hours a day. The main entrance, under the reconstructed dome, leads to a modern 35-metre-high, glass-covered entrance foyer. The museum is arranged around three courtyard spaces. "In architectural terms, the concepts of palace and piazza allow for a well-balanced combination of the old and the new – each with its own, unique vocabulary of forms and shapes." Schlüterhof courtyard contains reconstructed facades. "In other words, I envisioned it as a city in the form of a palace," he continued. "I conceived the Humboldt Forum as a palace, with its six portals representing city gates, and its three inner courtyards servicing as city squares," said Stella. Three facades have been reconstructed and the fourth is modernĪccording to Stella, the museum was conceived as a city with six entrances acting as city gates and three courtyards as squares. To reconstruct the quince-coloured facades, sculptors and plaster moulders recreated 2,800 figures and approximately 22,000 different sandstone elements including windows, cornices and columns.