Carlo SCARPA - Castelvecchio Museum

Between 1958 and 1974, Castelvecchio, underwent an important renovation and reinstallation of the museum spaces, designed and supervised for the city of Verona by the architect Carlo Scarpa ( Venice 1906 - Sensai, Japan 1978) during the directinship of the art historian Licisco Magagnato. The antique arms court, reduced at the beginning of the twentieth century to an Italianate garden, was trasformed by Scarpa into an extraordinary modern courtyard that evokes both Venice and tradition of gardens, and at the same time complements the architecture with geometrical logic and the use of both traditional Veronese materials, such as Prun stone, and contemporary ones, such as concrete. This space is both the prologue to the museum visit and a resting point along the route. Several important works in stone are also sited within the garden: two 19th-century fountains, an early 13th-century sarcophagus, the central rose from the mediaval floor of the church of Sant'Anastasia, installed here like an emblem next to the entrance. In addition, the site contains a medieval sundial and the celebrated equestrian statue of Cangrande I della Scala.

Zaha HADID - MAXXI Museum Art XXI - Part.1+2

 

Zaha HADID - (2009) - MAXXI Museum Art XXI (Roma - Italy) - Part.1 Zaha Hadid http://www.zaha-hadid.com/ has drawn walls that plough the space delineating fields of strength with fluid trajectories that cross the space, and there are the same intersection to define the circle among inside and outside. The structure has a complex and irregular form that corresponds to an inside articulation without clean division of plans and spaces: a composite environment characteristic from a high-level of functional flexibility in which the light plays a remarkable role in fact a coverage in glass floods of natural light all the spaces. We don't find us of forehead to a journey to effect, but to an experience of trip in a complex net of connections and runs that through bridges and staircases they bring us "long" the three levels of the structure without ever returning on our footsteps and always discovering new roads. An architecture that opens a tear in the circuit of the time and they forces every of us to change our point of view, that is something that belongs much more to the cinema that to the architecture and the multiplicity of the visions, when everything is confuses and then everything returns clear, as in a film. It's the MAXXI http://www.maxxi.beniculturali.it/ind... the Modern Art Museum of XXI Century in Rome - Italy (41°55'41.67"N - 12°28'1.77"E). Public open was in 20 May 2010. Info in Via Guido Reni,4 - Rome - Tel.+0039.06.3210181

La arquitectura del Museo del Prado

Comentada por Pedro Moleón, profesor de Historia en la Arquitectura de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid y destacado especialista en la obra de Juan de Villanueva (1739-1811), autor del edificio en el que se fundó el Museo en 1819. Duración del vídeo: 15min.

THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE MUSEUM Commented by Pedro Moleón, professor of Architecture History in the Universidad Politécnica in Madrid and a distinguished specialist in the work of Juan de Villanueva (1739-1811) author of the building in which the museum was founded in 1819. Duration: 15min.

El Museo Guggenheim de Bilbao - Parte 3

El Museo Guggenheim de Bilbao - Parte 2

El Museo Guggenheim de Bilbao - Parte 1

Visit the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart

About 80 vehicles and many small exhibits are on display at the Porsche Museum in a unique ambience. In addition to world-famous, iconic vehicles such as the 356, 550, 911, and 917, the exhibits include some of the outstanding technical achievements of Professor Ferdinand Porsche. More information on http://www.porsche.com/museum

Extension of Reina Sofia Museum

Extension of Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain.

Architect : Ateliers Jean Nouvel

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italian / english

"This  proposal  is  a  gentle,  natural  operation.
The Museum takes in a triangular block to the west,  three  of  four  buildings  and  some  trees under one of its wings.
Although  these  buildings  change,  they  stay roughly in the same place and their relationship with the neighbouring architectures does not vary in essence: we simply try to clear the western  façade  of  the  Museum."

"Ma questa è solo una premessa: l’inserimento di qualsiasi architettura contemporanea in un contesto preesistente sarà pienamente riuscita solo se saprà valorizzare ciò che la circonda e, viceversa, se verrà nobilitata da ciò che le sta intorno."

Extension of Prado’s Museum

Extension of Prado’s Museum. Madrid, Spain.

Architect : Rafael Moneo

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italiano / italian

"Il Nuovo Prado si colloca alle spalle dell’edificio storico e si formalizza, denunciando la propria presenza urbana, in un cubo stereometrico di mattoni,  collegato  alle  sale  esistenti  mediante un articolato sistema di spazi e funzioni interrate; di fatto l’immagine del Prado pare non aver subito modificazioni ma nella sostanza la sua rifunzionalizzazione propone un nuovo uso dello spazio urbano, una variata visione della città e della parte tergale del Museo."

Kalmar Museum of Art

Kalmar Museum of Art, Kalmar, Sweden.

Architects : Tham & Videgård Hansson Arkitekter

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"Una  piattaforma  dalla  quale  osservare  indisturbati  “il  fuori”  e  studiata  per  garantire  il massimo della flessibilità degli spazi interni. Il nuovo museo di arte di Kalmar, in Svezia, è il  progetto  risultato  vincitore  ad  un  concorso internazionale del 2004."

Museum, Orsta, Norway

Architect : Sverre Fehn
Designation : Museum, Orsta, Norway

Museum, Shikoku, Japan

Museum, Shikoku, Japan

Architect : Naito Architect & associates

Museum of Natural History, Matsunoyama, Niigata, Japan

Museum of Natural History, Matsunoyama, Niigata, Japan

Architect : Tezuka Architects

CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM, ST LOUIS, MISSOURI, USA

CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM, ST LOUIS, MISSOURI, USA

Architects : ALLIED WORKS

ART MUSEUM, BERNE, SWITZERLAND

ART MUSEUM, BERNE, SWITZERLAND

Architect : RENZO PIANO