Friday, September 29, 2017

When A Starchitect Designs A Major Project He Doesn't Want You To Notice

David Chipperfield is doing a gut renovation of Berlin's New National Gallery - designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - to, as a reporter puts it, "fix problems caused by age, as well as some that have plagued it since birth. ... [He wants it] to perform as well as the most modern, assiduously climate-controlled and carefully lit museum - without any visitor noticing that he was ever there."



Article source here:Arts Journal

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