The Museum of Contemporary Art | Denver reopens this Sunday in a new location [map]. Architect David Adjaye designed the shiny, new building [pictures]. Architectural Record has the details. I like the design, especially what I’ve seen of the interior walls:
Adjaye, known in Europe for his creative use of industrial building materials, employed tinted glass for the museum’s exterior walls but added an interior skin of MonoPan, a translucent material made of woven recycled plastic and used in the fabrication of trailers and storage sheds, among other products. “It was something I encountered at a trade fair of motor cars,” Adjaye says. “I was blown away by this material.”
If that’s not enough, I recommend the New York Magazine interview with Adjaye:
Your museum in Denver also seems like an attempt to make something more public than the traditional museum.
It is like a mini-version of a city.How is that done architecturally?
You never go from one exhibition space to another: You always come out into a kind of street and then you meander into another exhibition space. The way in which you are seeing art is almost like being in a little village or little town.What is the plus of that?
You have the ability to perceive art, digest it, then go on to the next thing. You get away from the exhaustion when you are relentlessly pounded with stuff.
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