2024-11-23T07:55:23-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150349955/adjaye-debuts-preview-of-india-s-new-kiran-nadar-museum-of-art-project-in-venice Josh Niland 2023-05-17T00:01:00-04:00 >2024-10-25T04:07:38-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/51/5172023c995b9806f895517a3acbd81f.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>As part of this year&rsquo;s <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/1888350/2023-venice-biennale" target="_blank">Venice Architecture Biennale</a>, <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/36032/david-adjaye" target="_blank">David Adjaye</a> will be on hand to present an architectural model of the new Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) project in New Delhi.</p> <p>The model will be staged inside the Arsenale as part of the Curator&rsquo;s Special Projects <em>Mnemonic</em> section, which runs from May 20th until the close of the Biennale.&nbsp;</p> <p>Once it is completed in 2026, the museum building is expected to become India&rsquo;s largest cultural center. Offering space for the museum&rsquo;s collection of over 10,000 modern and contemporary works, the project is being undertaken in collaboration with <a href="https://sghosh.com/" target="_blank">S. Ghosh &amp; Associates</a> and will consolidate its currently disparate locations in New Delhi and Noida into a 100,000-square-meter (one-million-square-foot) new home on a plot adjacent to the Indira Gandhi International Airport.&nbsp;</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/e2/e22d1804007e20e0cc939df9a5cf52f1.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/e2/e22d1804007e20e0cc939df9a5cf52f1.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Architectural model of the new KNMA, New Delhi. Courtesy David Adjaye Associates and KNMA</figcaption></figure><p>The museum&rsquo;s founder and namesake explains: &ldquo;Our presentation at the Biennale Architett...</p>