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WHITNEY
THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF ART |
| By: |
Renzo Piano (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£45.00 |
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£32.85 |
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£12.15 |
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| ISBN 10: |
8862640099 |
| ISBN 13: |
9788862640091 |
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| Publisher: |
FONDAZIONE RENZO PIANO |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 2015 |
| Pages: |
196 |
| Description: |
The Whitney Museum is building itself a new home in downtown Manhattan's Meatpacking District. Due to open on May 1st, 2015, the project will substantially enlarge the Whitney's exhibition and programming space. |
| Synopsis: |
The Whitney Museum is building itself a new home in downtown Manhattan's Meatpacking District. Due to open on May 1st, 2015, the project will substantially enlarge the Whitney's exhibition and programming space. Clad in pale blue- grey enamel steel panels, the new, eight-storey building is powerfully asymmetrical, with the bulk of the full-height museum to the west, Hudson-side, with tiers of lighter terraces and glazed walkways stepping down to the High Line, embracing it into the project. The Museum is entered via a dramatically cantilevered plaza, or "largo", a public space that serves as a kind of decompression chamber between street and museum, a shared space, with views to the Hudson and the High Line entrance just a few steps away. Accessed from the "largo", the main entrance lobby also serves as a public gallery - nearly a thousand square feet (100 sq. Meters) of free-entry exhibition space.Level three houses a 170-retractible seat theatre with double-height views over the Hudson River, along with technical spaces and offices. Some 4 650 sq. Meters of gallery space is distributed over levels five, six, seven and eight, the fifth level boasting a 1670 sq.Meters, column-free gallery - making it the largest open-plan museum gallery in New York City. A text at the end of the book provides the reader with a "behind the scene" view. A conception of the museum that starts from the work of art to arrive at the architectural project. A journey that takes the reader through time and space during its realisation. |
| Illustrations: |
500 colour photographs, plans & illsutrations |
| Publication: |
Italy |
| Imprint: |
Fondazione Renzo Piano |
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Returnable |
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