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New National Gallery:The forest is quiet and silence:

United Kingdom Architecture News - Oct 02, 2014 - 11:39   3516 views

New National Gallery:The forest is quiet and silence:

Photo:AP  Wood and glass in harmony. The architect David Chipperfield opened his "intervention" in the Mies van der Rohe Temple.
David Chipperfield builds on an installation with 143 pines in the New National Gallery. Then the house will be closed for five years - and renovated by Chipperfield.
End of the year is closing. Then void the previously repeatedly extended "license" for the New National Gallery, and the time of the general renovation begins . How long it will last, is not in sight. You have to probably start at five years. Five years in which - as always proceed with the collection of 20th century - at least the magnificent building, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and opened in 1968, remains deprived the public.

For the last three months of its opening , however, the upper hall of the Neue Nationalgalerie comes up with a fascinating installation."Sticks and Stones" called David Chipperfield his "intervention" from roughly 143 debarked logs that fit the prescribed Mies strict grid and yet act quite differently than the steel of the building.

David Chipperfield and his office will redevelop the New National Gallery, and they are so carefully manage it as before the highly acclaimed reconstruction of the Neues Museum on Museum Island . The perpetrator from Wednesday to installation provides an aesthetic approach to the project is, whose full extent is not yet determined, just as the costs would be likely to move in the range of 50 million euros is.That Mies's steel punch but does not represent a cost problem in the first place, but an architecture historic building, as there are few of such rank, make the 143 tree trunks hitting significantly....Continue Reading

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