The Odunpazari Modern Museum (OMM), a major new institution designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates, will open in the vibrant but ancient university city of Eskişehir in Turkey in June, The Art Newspaper has learned. With stylistic echoes of Kuma’s V&A Dundee, the museum’s stacked timber design reflects surrounding wooden houses from the Ottoman era, and is named after its historic “wood market” district—Odunpazari. — The Art Newspaper
"The museum will house and show Turkish and international Modern and contemporary works from the 1,000 piece collection of Erol Tabanca, the architect and partner in Polimeks Holding, a leading Turkish construction firm," writes The Art Newspaper.
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I like this, a museum that doesn't overpower the art inside. Understated yet tactile and engaging, on a human scale. Cf. Gehry, etc. Not clear from the pictures, however, what the exhibition space is like.
Gallery shot:
Interiors overpower the art.
Yup.
Remember BIG's first stab at the Kimball?
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