Steven Holl has won an international competition to design a new Centre of the Arts in the Danish town of Herning, central Jutland.Steven Holl Steven Holl (born December 9, 1947, Bremerton, Washington) is an American academic architect best known for the 1998 Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, Finland and the controversial 2003 Simmons Hall at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.. has won an international competition to design a new Centre of the Arts in the Danish town of Herning, central Jutland. His winning proposal unites the town's three main cultural institutions; the Kunstmuseum (mainstream art), the MidtVest Ensemble (music and ballet) and the Socle so·cle n. 1. A plain square block higher than a plinth, serving as a pedestal for sculpture, a vase, or a column. 2. A plain plinth supporting a wall. du Monde n. 1. The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty. Le beau monde fashionable society. See Beau monde. Demi monde See Demimonde. (concept art and installations) in a new forum for cultural engagement, performance and experimentation. As well as temporary and permanent exhibition galleries, the new building will house a 300 seat auditorium, media library, restaurant, offices and music rebearsal rooms, Seen from above, Holl's assemblage of curved, low-rise volumes resembles a collection of shirt sleeves strewn strew tr.v. strewed, strewn or strewed, strew·ing, strews 1. To spread here and there; scatter: strewing flowers down the aisle. 2. around a field. Building and landscape fuse, through sod-clad roofs and a new bermed landscape of grass mounds and pools which conceals the parking and service areas. Galleries are simple, orthogonal spaces with curved roof sections that filter natural light into the interiors. Moveable, lightweight internal partitions provide optimum curatorial flexibility. Completion of the new arts centre An art center or arts centre is distinct from an art gallery or art museum. An arts centre is a functional community centre with a specific remit to encourage arts practice and to provide facilities such as theatre space, gallery space, venues for musical performance, is scheduled for late 2007. Holl's Danish foray is the latest in a series of new European projects, which include the recently completed Loisium Winery and Spa Hotel in Austria's Kamptal Valley and an earlier competition win for an Oceanographic Study Centre in Biarritz in south-west France. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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