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Jean Nouvel's massive "catalyzing" design for the new NAMOC in Beijing

2014-09-23T18:00:00-04:00

Ateliers Jean Nouvel's new National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) in Beijing will be quite the culture giant. Built in 1963, the new NAMOC will be 130,000 sq. meters to house its various collections of 100,000 pieces from the 1500s to contemporary times. Jean Nouvel and the Beijing Institute of Architectural Design (BIAD) announced late last week the official launch of the design and construction of the new museum.

Ateliers Jean Nouvel describes that the museum is designed to "catalyze" the senses and to physically convey the complex "spirit of Chinese civilization" throughout its history. This concept of the passing of time and timelessness is suggested through the museum's vast historical collection and the museum's natural elements that change with the seasons. The program includes permanent and temporary exhibition galleries, a research and education center, reserves, an auditorium, and public and admin spaces.

Here are more details the architecture firm sent us:

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Designs for Beijing mega-museum unveiled

2014-09-22T13:57:00-04:00

The French architect Jean Nouvel has announced details of his design for the National Art Museum of China in Beijing. [...] “The National Art Museum of China represents an incredible opportunity for the most ambitious materialisation of a place of expression… a place that witnesses the vitality of a civilisation, the civilisation of the greatest people on earth,” say the organisers.

Previously: Jean Nouvel Confirmed as Winner of the National Art Museum of China Competition

Jean Nouvel Confirmed as Winner of the National Art Museum of China Competition

2013-07-25T14:17:00-04:00

Jean Nouvel has won the prestigious competition to design the National Art Museum of China in Beijing.

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National Art Museum of China Entry by Gehry Partners

2013-07-15T14:04:00-04:00

Gehry Partners has sent us detailed information about their entry to last summer's most buzzed about architectural competition, the National Art Museum of China in Beijing. Gehry's beautiful NAMOC entry made it all the way to the final of three competition rounds and found itself in lofty company with submissions from fellow Pritzker Prize winners Zaha Hadid and Jean Nouvel.

The project is currently being exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles as part of MOCA's exhibition A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture from Southern California.

UPDATE: Jean Nouvel Confirmed as Winner of the National Art Museum of China Competition

FT discusses Nouvel's design for the National Art Museum of China

2013-05-20T18:27:00-04:00

The French architect behind the Louvre Abu Dhabi, the Fondation Cartier and the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris has designed the breathtakingly bold new National Art Museum of China (Namoc) for Beijing, a vast structure which combines internal complexity with apparent external simplicity.

UPDATE: Jean Nouvel Confirmed as Winner of the National Art Museum of China Competition

National Art Museum of China Entry by MAD

2012-09-27T22:38:00-04:00

Only a few more weeks, and we will officially find out who has won the prestigious competition for NAMOC, the new National Art Museum of China in Beijing. Below is the entry of one of the twenty firms that were invited by the competition organizers to submit designs, Beijing-based firm MAD.

Previously: Jean Nouvel Said To Edge Gehry, Hadid For Beijing Museum Job

UPDATE: Jean Nouvel Confirmed as Winner of the National Art Museum of China Competition

Jean Nouvel Said To Edge Gehry, Hadid For Beijing Museum Job

2012-08-21T17:16:00-04:00

Rumor has it that Pritzker Prize–winning French architect Jean Nouvel has been selected to design a mammoth new building for the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), renowned for its exhibitions of 20th-century and contemporary Chinese art, in Beijing. If reports prove to be true, Nouvel will not only have the distinguished honor of executing this highly coveted commission, but also to win bragging rights for outgunning his blockbuster contemporaries, Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid...

UPDATE: Jean Nouvel Confirmed as Winner of the National Art Museum of China Competition