Herzog & de Meuron: museum, Zaragoza, Spain.The aspirations aspirations npl → aspiraciones fpl (= ambition); ambición f aspirations npl (= hopes, ambition) → aspirations fpl for this museum were relatively modest. In view of its scale, national significance and remote location, the architects consolidated their extensive experience working with galleries and artists around the world to focus on the specific qualities of this collection, this group of buildings and this particular place; their principal priority being to create and programme a unique whole that would only be sustainable in and for Zaragoza. Working within two courtyard buildings built in 1908, the architects proposed four new anchor rooms that break into the existing configuration. This apparently violent act destroys part of the existing structure, disrupting its historical continuity and spatial configuration. It is, however, a positive liberating lib·er·ate tr.v. lib·er·at·ed, lib·er·at·ing, lib·er·ates 1. To set free, as from oppression, confinement, or foreign control. 2. Chemistry To release (a gas, for example) from combination. act, opening up new perspectives and adding a new layer of history. The four anchor rooms represent reconstructions of interiors from Goya's work, giving visitors the opportunity to experience for themselves rooms that Goya painted. As interpretations, however, they will not mimic the detail of Goya's interiors. Refined and reduced, only their scale and proportion will be replicated, and materially they will use the same solid and smooth light grey brick used in the facades of the Escuela and the Museum. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The grand stair stair n. 1. A series or flight of steps; a staircase. Often used in the plural. 2. One of a flight of steps. [Middle English, from Old English is the only other addition to the existing buildings, connecting the two courtyard buildings with an elevated brick cruciform cruciform /cru·ci·form/ (kroo´si-form) cross-shaped. cruciform cross-shaped. ; a device that will perform an equivalent function as the pyramid at the Louvre Louvre (l  `vrə), foremost French museum of art, located in Paris. The building was a royal fortress and palace built by Philip II in the late 12th cent. , forming a new focal point focal pointn. See focus. and shared entrance for the entire precinct A constable's or police district. A small geographical unit of government. An election district created for convenient localization of polling places. A county or municipal subdivision for casting and counting votes in elections. PRECINCT. . The Espacio Goya is planned to be completed in 2008. R.G. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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