February 9, 2010
A new museum for the Acropolis
More positive coverage of the New Acropolis Museum which opened last year.
From:
Flavorwire
The Acropolis Goes Modern
1:01 pm Monday Jan 25, 2010 by Kelsey KeithAfter inevitable delays — including the discovery of an ancient Athenian city under the building site — The New Acropolis Museum is open for business, packing in visitors to the historic but semi-rundown neighborhood of Makrygianni in Athens. The thoughtful design by former Columbia architecture dean Bernard Tschumi and team positions the 226,000 square foot museum over the footprint of the long-ruined city; the exhibition space — ten times larger than that of the previous edifice — provides what could someday be a permanent home for the hotly contested Elgin Marbles and other looted artifacts. Hellenic architecture porn after the jump.
Bernard Tschumi Architects won the bid in 2001 in a design competition chaired by Santiago Calatrava; their winning plan “created a deliberately non-monumental structure whose simple and precise design invokes the mathematical and conceptual clarity of ancient Greek architecture” while establishing a dialogue between the museum’s exhibition spaces and the existing Acropolis buildings.
- New Acropolis Museum to open this month : June 2, 2009
- Tschumi’s New Acropolis Museum : April 7, 2009
- New Acropolis Museum designer to lecture in London : October 8, 2005
- The New Acropolis Museum awaits the Parthenon Marbles : October 29, 2008
- The New Acropolis Museum – an anti-Bilbao : June 12, 2009
- New Acropolis Museum architect says Elgin Marbles should be returned : May 27, 2009
- The importance of the New Acropolis Museum : May 16, 2009
- The museum beneath the museum : June 30, 2009