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Thanks, Amanda:

The may 2005 issue of Architectural Record has a several page spread  
on our new wing, designed by Polshek Partners.  While not a bilbao- 
style smash, it is quite beautiful, particularly when it is full of  
kids!

Eric Siegel

On Jun 8, 2005, at 3:53 PM, Amanda Chesworth wrote:

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> Not entirely applicable but I thought I would send this new book  
> description
> on. No doubt, they are highlight museums that cost a large fortune  
> to build
> and are designed by the leaders in architecture but I love Phaidon and
> Taschen books and expect this will be quite a gem. If our science  
> museums
> were designed like this we'd surely increase visitors... sadly
> superficialities carry a lot of weight these days. Amanda
>
>
> New Museums
> by Raul A Barrenche
> http://www.phaidon.com/phaidon/2.asp?displayproduct.asp?id=2224
>
> about the book
> The lead article in the October 2004 issue of Architectural Record,  
> devoted
> to contemporary museums, noted that "museums continue to  
> proliferate across
> the international landscape, leading to the conclusion that, post- 
> Bilbao,
> every municipality seems to want a smash." Certainly, following the  
> opening
> of Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, museums gained a  
> newfound cache
> among architects and clients. The mission and purpose of the museum is
> rapidly evolving: museums today are frequently more than  
> repositories for
> historical art: they can be research centers, memorials, contemporary
> galleries, or site-specific artworks in themselves. New Museums  
> documents
> the best of new museum design and features 27 projects in 13  
> countries in
> Europe, the United States, Israel, and Japan. The architects  
> represented are
> among the most renowned practitioners in the world today; in  
> addition to
> those mentioned above, they include van Berkel + Bos, Santiago  
> Calatrava,
> Zaha Hadid, Kengo Kuma, and Alvaro Siza, as well as lesser-known,  
> talented
> designers such as Zvi Hecker in Israel and Diener & Diener in  
> Switzerland.
>
> An illustrated general introduction discusses well-known historical
> precedents as well as current themes relevant to museum design: the  
> museum
> as a neutral container, its role in placing art in context, the  
> museum as an
> addition to an existing building, and as a distinct work of art.
>
> Each project is thoroughly documented with color photographs, plans,
> drawings, and a project description.
>
> table of contents
> Introduction . Museum of Hiroshige Ando, Japan (Kengo Kuma) . Horiyuji
> Treasures Gallery, Tokyo (Yoshio Taniguchi) . Paper Art Museum, Japan
> (Shigeru Ban) . Het Valkhof Museum, The Netherlands (van Berkel +  
> Bos) .
> Seralves Museum, Portugal (Alvaro Siza) . Rosenthal Center for  
> Contemporary
> Art, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA (Zaha Hadid) . Liner Museum, Switzerland
> (Gigon/Guyer) . Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas,  
> USA
> (Tadao Ando) . Schaulager, Basel (Herzog + de Meuron) . Palmach  
> Museum of
> History, Tel Aviv (Zvi Hecker) . Nizayama Forest Art Museum, Tokyo  
> (Lapeña &
> Torres) . O Museum, Japan (Kazuyo Sejima/SANAA . Altamira Museum,  
> Spain
> (J.N. Baldeweg) . Museo de Bellas Artes, Spain (Mansilla + Tuñon) .  
> Vulcania
> Museum, France (Hans Hollein) . Great Court, British Museum, London  
> (Foster
> + Partners) . Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, The Netherlands (Abel Cahen) .
> Centre PasquArt, Switzerland (Diener & Diener) . Museum of Modern Art,
> Vienna (Ortner & Ortner) .
> Milwaukee Art Museum addition, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA (Santiago
> Calatrava) . Kiasma Museum, Helsinki, Finland (Steven Holl) .  
> Imperial War
> Museum North, Manchester, UK (Daniel Libeskind) . River and Rowing  
> Museum,
> UK (David Chipperfield) . Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas,  
> USA (Renzo
> Piano) . Jewish Museum, Berlin (Daniel Libeskind) . Kunsthaus,  
> Graz, Austria
> (Peter Cook) . American Folk Art Museum, New York, USA (Williams +  
> Tsien) .
> Endmatter
>
>
> about the author
> Raul A. Barreneche, a New York-based editor and critic, has been  
> writing
> about architecture and design for more than ten years. A former  
> executive
> editor at Architecture, he writes regularly for The New York Times.  
> He is
> currently a contributing editor to Metropolitan Home, Travel +  
> Leisure, and
> Architectural Record, and has written for Dwell, House Beautiful,  
> ID, ELLE
> Décor, Interior Design, Wallpaper, and other publications.  
> Barreneche is
> co-author of House: American Houses for the New Century, and author of
> Tropical Modern.
>
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