Archinect - News 2024-12-22T03:59:08-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/91994835/hiroshi-sugimoto-designs-own-museum Hiroshi Sugimoto Designs Own Museum Alexander Walter 2014-01-24T14:29:00-05:00 >2014-01-28T15:10:39-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/0a/0a6aa7e2a1ccda8e18529230af35392b?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>When it comes to museums, Hiroshi Sugimoto doesn&rsquo;t mince words. &ldquo;This is the worst space I ever encountered,&rdquo; he told the Journal before opening a retrospective of his work at Seoul&rsquo;s Leeum Samsung Museum of Art late last year. The Japanese artist was especially unhappy about a steep escalator leading down into the main gallery space of the OMA-designed building. &ldquo;Why do that? It&rsquo;s terrible,&rdquo; he lamented. &ldquo;I feel a kind of bad will from this architect.&rdquo;</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>