SFMOMA chooses architect for $250-million expansion: Norwegian firm Snøhetta | Culture Monster | Lo…
Filed under Culture in 2010 |26 Jul
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??????SFMOMA has just set a rattling big bet that it can, by selecting the critically acclaimed but not so ordinarily known Oslo-based immobile Sn??hetta — named abaft a flock in Norway — as the designer for its large-scale overhaul and elaboration. The museum’s panel of trustees sanctioned the excerption on Wednesday; an functionary promulgation is expected Thursday.
The conclusion was not a nail storm, as SFMOMA named Sn??hetta in a shortlist released in May of iv firms formally nether considerateness, which too included Adjaye Associates, Diller Scofidio + Renfro and, nigh accomplished of all, Foster + Partners. But, as SFMOMA Director Neal Benezra admits, Sn??hetta is “not abominably comfortably known in our state, and particularly not in the West.”
Though Sn??hetta has over-the-counter buildings in exploitation in the U.S., including the National September eleventh Memorial Museum launching marquee at the World Trade Center locate in New York, SFMOMA promises to be the truehearted’s beginning construction on the West Coast.
Reached by ring Wednesday even, Benezra aforesaid a chaffer made by various trustees to Oslo, role of a m enlistment this summertime to adjoin the foursome finalists and see about of their accomplished buildings, played a critical part.
He aforesaid the museum’s option commission was bowled ended by Sn??hetta’s Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Oslo (depicted supra), as was he. “When I saw it for the offset clip, it reminded me of Bilbao — it has that tolerant of hob,” Benezra aforementioned.
“Not lone is it a grotesque conception, but it’s likewise a framework of booking, with multitude walk indoors and extraneous and on top of the edifice. And that is what we want: a construction of enceinte vision and exhilaration that deeds on a hardheaded story in a particular urban circumstance.”
He likewise praised the collaborative nature of the loyal, which was founded in 1989 abaft Craig Dykers and Kjetil Thorsen, among early architects, teamed up to participate a competitor for the Egyptian Library of Alexandria. They went on to win the competition, habitus the library and demonstrate a new strong. (The strong has since won the Aga Khan and the Mies van der Rohe awards for architecture, and doubly standard the World Architecture Award for trump ethnic edifice — for its library in Alexandria and for its National Opera and Ballet in Oslo.)
Why didn’t SFMOMA go the competitor itinerary, inviting prima architects to reconcile proposals? “I recollect we aforesaid to one another: We’re not selecting a excogitation, we’re selecting a couturier,” Benezra aforesaid.
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