Herzog & de Meuron Unveils Design for New Vancouver Art Gallery Building
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World-renowned, Swiss-based architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron recently unveiled the final designs for the new Vancouver Art Gallery. The 300,000-square-foot building has been designed to accommodate the gallery’s expanding collection and showcase ouHerzog & de Meuron Unveils Design for New Vancouver Art Gallery Building
World-renowned, Swiss-based architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron recently unveiled the final designs for the new Vancouver Art Gallery. The 300,000-square-foot building has been designed to accommodate the gallery’s expanding collection and showcase outstanding art and host educational programs for its expanding audiences and viewers.The gallery is coming up at Larwill Park, which sits at the crossroads of Downtown, Yaletown, Gastown, east Vancouver and Chinatown. “The new Vancouver Art Gallery will provide a global platform for Vancouver’s and Canada’s thriving arts scene and play a vital role in establishing this city as one of the world’s foremost cities for arts and culture,” explained Herzog & de Meuron.The “sculptural, symmetrical and upright” new building combines opaque and transparent surfaces, with larger volumes concentrated at the top and minimal mass at the bottom. By lifting the bulk of the structure high above the street, the design allows light and air to filter down to an active, open-air courtyard below, as described by the architects.Christine Binswanger, Partner in Charge, Herzog & de Meuron, said: “The project for the new Vancouver Art Gallery has a civic dimension that can contribute to the life and identity of the city, in which many artists of international reputation live and work. The building now combines two materials, wood and glass, both inseparable from the history and making of the city. We developed a facade out of glass logs which is pure, soft, light, establishing a unique relation to covered wooden terraces all around the building.”“The new Vancouver Art Gallery is a vertical building, distinctly spectacular at first sight, with an arrangement that resonates with the place where it is built. It offers ample outdoor spaces that are sunny in summer and protected from rain in winter, to suit the climate and life in British Columbia. Visitors to the building will be able to perceive Vancouver’s urbanity and its amazing natural setting in many different ways,” said Herzog & de Meuron. https://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more