The Museo Universidad de Navarra, a brand new gallery designed by the renowned Rafael Moneo, may lead to a stampede of art lovers every bit as important to Pamplona as the running of the bulls [...]
The architect is Rafael Moneo, a Pritzker prizewinner and native of Navarre province. [...]
If the architecture of the new gallery is not as eye-catching as Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim, the collection is more impressive [...].
— theguardian.com
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To me, Moneo's best works are those that are inserted into a place built up 100+ years ago. The dialog between his buildings and their context is always what puts his work a cut above. I guess it helps to work in a region rife with old architecture... But this, standing alone in the middle of a verdant green, looks like failure of planning. With little connection to the heart of the city, they're going to have to have one hell of a collection to make this work the way they want to.
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