Heatherwick Studio Transforms a Grain Silo in Cape Town
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Heatherwick Studio completes its reinvention of a historic grain silo at V&A Waterfront in Cape Town, South Africa in the form of Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art of Africa. The physical facts of the building posed a challenge. Rather than strip ouHeatherwick Studio Transforms a Grain Silo in Cape Town
Heatherwick Studio completes its reinvention of a historic grain silo at V&A Waterfront in Cape Town, South Africa in the form of Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art of Africa. The physical facts of the building posed a challenge. Rather than strip out the evidence of the building’s industrial heritage, the architects wanted to find a way to celebrate it. Heatherwick Studio has converted the tube-forest inside the silo into a cathedral-like atrium leading to more than 100 galleries. The glass building offers a breathtaking view of the city and its waterfront in a context of rehabilitation of the centre.The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art of Africa will officially open its doors between September 22 and September 25, 2017. Zeitz MOCAA is the first major museum in Africa dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora, and also the first African institution to acknowledge new mediums through the establishment of different centers and institutes within the overall museum. As a complete cultural complex, the center will gather the museum with a hotel, a restaurant, conference rooms, and a garden, noted World Architecture News. Read more