2024-11-23T05:16:45-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150427694/converted-grain-silo-opens-as-new-art-destination-in-southern-norway Josh Niland 2024-05-15T17:02:00-04:00 >2024-05-21T08:31:41-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/d5/d5de1b27448109695c3f37d6273f2e69.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/342/norway" target="_blank">Norway</a>&rsquo;s new Kunstsilo Museum has opened to the public in the southern port city of Kristiansand.&nbsp;</p> <p>The new home for the private collection of Nicolai Tangen is the product of a six-year transformation authored by Spanish studios Mestres W&aring;ge Arquitectes, Mendoza Partida, and BAX in a former grain silo (hence the name) and integrates the Southern Norway Art Museum&rsquo;s holdings seamlessly into one space that covers three floors and yields a total of 3,300 square meters (35,520 square feet) for exhibitions and cultural programming.</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/a5/a5d0f5ce04366d1bccc426fbff91f27a.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/a5/a5d0f5ce04366d1bccc426fbff91f27a.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Photo: Alan Williams Photography, image courtesy Kunstsilo.</figcaption></figure><p>The overhaul of Arne Korsmo and Sverre Aasland&rsquo;s original 1935 functionalist design evokes both the <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/193123/tate-modern" target="_blank">Tate Modern</a> in London and <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/354290/thomas-heatherwick/30" target="_blank">Thomas Heatherwick</a>&rsquo;s popular 2017 reimagining of the <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150028785/south-africa-s-new-contemporary-art-museum-opens-in-cape-town-s-former-grain-silo" target="_blank">Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa</a> in Cape Town, South Africa.&nbsp;</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/a3/a3e94f14d8767dd2319b2a4a40f3e7cf.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/a3/a3e94f14d8767dd2319b2a4a40f3e7cf.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Photo: Alan Williams Photography, image courtesy Kunstsilo.</figcaption></figure><p>Inside, the collection of around 5,500 objects is presented in 25 galleries surrounding a large (6...</p> https://archinect.com/news/article/85450315/shenzhen-biennale-explores-postindustrial-urbanism Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2013-10-31T18:23:00-04:00 >2013-11-04T22:14:40-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/x3/x3qbxyvstdvz8u4u.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p> The 5th&nbsp;<a href="http://www.szhkbiennale.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB)&nbsp;</strong></a>will reflect on southern China's rapidly developed recent past, while focusing attentions on its postindustrial future. Co-organized by Shenzhen and Hong Kong, the biennale presents a variety of international studies on urbanism, through architectural, ethnographic and artistic means. True to its future-focus, the biennale will renovate former industrial sites to use as venues, including an old waterfront warehouse and a former glass factory.</p> <p> Shenzhen's rapid urban growth began in 1979, when the Chinese government named the small village a "special economic zone" for manufacturing and employment. Since then, the city has been flushed with Chinese and foreign investments, primarily in manufacturing -- now, Shenzhen aims to develop more service industries and away from its fast-earned industrial past.</p> <p> <strong>UABB </strong>purports to be the only biennale in the world devoted entirely to urbanism and urbanization, and&nbsp;will be held from Dec...</p>