Why Is This Museum Shaped Like a Tub?

2012-12-26T13:36:00-05:00

Mels Crouwel, the lead architect for the Stedelijk, was government architect for years. His firm is normally reliable, with an industrial bent. He promoted the tub as a technological novelty, its aerodynamic exterior made of a reinforced synthetic fiber coated in white airplane paint to give the museum a shiny, enameled finish and to nod to the old Stedelijk’s white rooms, which still fails to explain the plumbing metaphor or other moves.

Michael Kimmelman reviews the new addition to the Stedelijk Museum by Benthem Crouwel Architects.

Editor's Picks #285

2012-10-09T12:17:00-04:00

For the latest edition of the Working out of the Box series, Archinect featured Ioana Urma. Ioana has completed a number of (public) art projects – murals, installations and other media and also does freelance commissions, ranging from 2D to 3D: books, illustrations, interiors, art installations, paintings, murals, architectural renovations and exhibit designs.

KIRSCH Architecture also shared their redevelopment and extension of Stelzhamerschule in Linz Austria, for the latest edition of Archinect’s ShowCase series.

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Why Is This Museum Shaped Like a Tub?

Editor's Picks #285