The New York architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien have been chosen to design a $100 million arts center at the University of Chicago, the university is to announce today. The design, still in the conceptual phases, calls for a glass and stone building with several quadrangles, narrow rectilinear windows and a tower described as a “beacon of light.” The center — to be called the Reva and David Logan Center for Creative and Performing Arts, after major donors to the project — is scheduled for completion in 2011. It will rise on the southern sector of the campus, alongside Frederick Law Olmsted’s historic Midway Plaisance Park. The building will feature studios, classrooms and art exhibition space; rehearsal and a black-box theater space for productions and teaching; music practice rooms and performance space; a film vault and screening hall; digital media and editing labs; and media classrooms. University trustees selected Ms. Tsien and Mr. Williams from among six firms in an international design competition.
another happy office with a good size prestigious project signed.
all this time, few architects thought exterior interior relationship of the museums since mies' national gallery in berlin, but it is now widely getting appreciated and applied, like the above winning project.
i think there is a whole argument to discuss the transparency of the museums.
white walled isolated space vs. extended interior mall like see thru museums.
i think all closed/protected/controlled physicality of museums are slowly being replaced by all included public participation encouraged, entertainment impragnated generation of buildings.
does museum art want to make peace with public? do architects propose this or they are given the program for a transparent museum? is this a corporate offer to the people's art or the gentrification of the same on a more prestigious second floor location?
any elaborators out there to say something about the curtain walled museum space?
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The New York architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien have been chosen to design a $100 million arts center at the University of Chicago, the university is to announce today. The design, still in the conceptual phases, calls for a glass and stone building with several quadrangles, narrow rectilinear windows and a tower described as a “beacon of light.” The center — to be called the Reva and David Logan Center for Creative and Performing Arts, after major donors to the project — is scheduled for completion in 2011. It will rise on the southern sector of the campus, alongside Frederick Law Olmsted’s historic Midway Plaisance Park. The building will feature studios, classrooms and art exhibition space; rehearsal and a black-box theater space for productions and teaching; music practice rooms and performance space; a film vault and screening hall; digital media and editing labs; and media classrooms. University trustees selected Ms. Tsien and Mr. Williams from among six firms in an international design competition.
if the proposals become public (or if they already are) please let us know...
i'm trying to get some access
wow, $100 million...
so how does that work, do they get their 8% as well or do those kinds of firms get to charge ricockulous fees (a la dick meier)
i still hope they're still not offering unpaid internships...
diller and scofidio meet neutlings on this one... i like it
oma+rex+ds&r+tw&bt+others=musee' market
another happy office with a good size prestigious project signed.
all this time, few architects thought exterior interior relationship of the museums since mies' national gallery in berlin, but it is now widely getting appreciated and applied, like the above winning project.
i think there is a whole argument to discuss the transparency of the museums.
white walled isolated space vs. extended interior mall like see thru museums.
i think all closed/protected/controlled physicality of museums are slowly being replaced by all included public participation encouraged, entertainment impragnated generation of buildings.
does museum art want to make peace with public? do architects propose this or they are given the program for a transparent museum? is this a corporate offer to the people's art or the gentrification of the same on a more prestigious second floor location?
any elaborators out there to say something about the curtain walled museum space?
they are both great people (as are everyone in their office) and they deserve it...congrats
update your damn website
great people....warm genuine. Inspire me to no end.
yeah ....the website thing is odd.
it's also got a little renzo piano via atlanta high museum extension, no? w/ the courtyard and stuff...looks similar to me
not that courtyards haven't been around familiar, but this one looks suspect...
its got several quadrangles!
It is nice to see someone is still doing formal space.
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