2024-04-28T02:28:03-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150282964/mkm-museum-k-ppersm-hle-reopens-after-a-herzog-de-meuron-backed-expansion Josh Niland 2021-09-27T17:37:00-04:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/65/652d73e4a77a20cf35679f02333fe0bd.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>One of Germany&rsquo;s premier collections of <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/17703/art-museum" target="_blank">modern art</a> is now reopened in the city of Duisburg thanks to an expansion project from <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/577/herzog-de-meuron" target="_blank">Herzog &amp; de Meuron</a>.</p> <p>Featuring an additional 2,500 square meters (26,900 square feet) of exhibition and gallery space, the firm expanded on its original 1999 reworking of an abandoned 19th-century mill located at the confluence between the Rhone and Rhine rivers about an hour north of Cologne.</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/c3/c30debd37ed16ceab0a4dc78a7fa0ea1.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/c3/c30debd37ed16ceab0a4dc78a7fa0ea1.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>&copy; MKM Duisburg / Herzog &amp; de Meuron &copy; Photo: Simon Menges</figcaption></figure><p>The added space will house the museum&rsquo;s Str&ouml;her Collection in a new four-story building connected to the existing mill through a series of bridges that run through the surviving grain silos, which provide brilliantly lit terracotta interiors and activate the entirety of the historic structure.&nbsp;<br></p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ad/ad8031d4f97db0788a1d7818be4e1f0f.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ad/ad8031d4f97db0788a1d7818be4e1f0f.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>&copy; MKM Duisburg / Herzog &amp; de Meuron &copy; Photo: Simon Menges</figcaption></figure><figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/75/752f63e2a369ec2277187135f9e97690.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/75/752f63e2a369ec2277187135f9e97690.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>&copy; MKM Duisburg / Herzog &amp; de Meuron &copy; Photo: Simon Menges</figcaption></figure><p>Three separate elevations help define the brick volume situated amongst existing inner harbor buildings and p...</p>