Street art museum opens in Berlin and presents itself as canvas

2017-09-21T14:31:00-04:00

Street art is the ultimate form of democracy according to the curators of the new Museum for Urban Contemporary Art that has just opened in Berlin. But does street art belong in exhibition halls? [...] Construction for the Urban Nation Museum of Urban Contemporary Art began in May 2016. A late-19th century house in the Berlin district of Schöneberg was redesigned by German architecture studio Graft.

Image: Graft, via dw.com.

In Deutsche Welle's interview with Yasha Young, the artistic director of the new Museum for Urban Contemporary Art, Young defends the need for a permanent home for street art: "Yes, street art belongs to the street and should stay there. The label "Museum for Street Art," although we often use it ourselves, is not quite accurate. We are much more: the museum is designed to be mobile, to connect the outside and the inside. The façade of the house always changes, which means the art that is created out there can be dismantled, changed and exhibited inside."

Graft & penda’s Myrtle Garden Hotel to break ground in Xiangyang, China

2014-02-24T20:49:00-05:00

Scenery at The Myrtle Flower Garden in Xiangyang, China will look quite different once the new hillside Myrtle Garden Hotel is built. Designed by graft lab architects and penda as a commission, the wooden haptic-structured hotel is ready to break ground within the next few weeks.

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Street art museum opens in Berlin and presents itself as canvas

Graft & penda’s Myrtle Garden Hotel to break ground in Xiangyang, China