[BUENOS AIRES] New Contemporary Art Museum is the theme of the latest international competition organized by [AC-CA] Architectural Competition to generate innovative ideas and contemporary design. Below are the winners and projects mentioned by the international jury composed of:
Hao and Archiland Beijing / SAMARANCH MEMORIAL MUSEUM
Spanish Juan Antonio Samaranch was the president of the International Olympic Committee 1980-2001. During his presidency he supported the candidacy of China as a city that would host the Olympic Games in 2008.
BIG Architects / Kimball Art Center
The Danish study BIG Architects recently it won the competition for the new Kimball Art Center Park City, Utah.
Nanjing Sifang Art Museum / Steven Holl Architects
Perspective is the fundamental historical difference between Western and Chinese painting. After the 13th century, Western painting developed vanishing points in fixed perspective. Chinese painters, while aware of perspective, rejected the single vanishing point method, producing landscapes with “parallel perspectives”, in which the viewer travels through the painting. The new museum is located at the gates of the Contemporary International Practical Exhibition of Architecture in the green landscape of Pearl Spring near Nanjing, China. The museum, completed by Steven Holl Architects, is made up of a “field” of spaces in parallel perspective. The straight passage of the ground floor gradually turns into a winding passage up to the floor above. The upper gallery, suspended in the air, develops
Frank Gehry, OHR o'Keefe museum
Located within a grove of ancient holm oak trees, Gehry conceived the O'Keefe OHR project as a series of six small pavilions woven into the trees and connected by a brick plaza.