Tel Aviv Museum of Art Amir Building / Preston Scott Cohen

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Tel Aviv, Israel
  • Architects: Preston Scott Cohen: Preston Scott Cohen, Inc.
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  18500
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2010

Text description provided by the architects. Located in the center of the city's cultural complex, the program for the Tel Aviv Museum of Art Amir Building posed an extraordinary architectural challenge: to resolve the tension between the tight, idiosyncratic triangular site and the museum's need for a series of large, neutral rectangular galleries. The solution: subtly twisting geometric surfaces (hyperbolic parabolas) that connect the disparate angles between the galleries and the context while refracting natural light into the deepest recesses of the half buried building.

Tel Aviv Museum of Art Amir Building / Preston Scott Cohen - Image 4 of 44

Tel Aviv Museum of Art Amir Building was the First Prize Winner in the Herta and Paul Amir International Competition. The program includes Galleries of Israeli Art, Architecture and Design, Drawings and Prints, Temporary Exhibitions; Photography Study Center and Archives; Multidisciplinary Auditorium; Seminar and Conference Rooms; Art Library; Restaurant; Administrative Offices; Loading, Unpacking and Storage. Following the break are drawings and construction photographs of this recently completed building.

The building represents an unusual synthesis of two opposing paradigms for the contemporary museum: the museum of neutral white boxes and the museum of architectural spectacle. Individual, rectangular galleries are organized around the "Lightfall", an eighty-seven foot tall spiraling atrium.

Tel Aviv Museum of Art Amir Building / Preston Scott Cohen - Stairs

The building is composed according to multiple axes that deviate significantly from floor to floor. In essence, it is a series of independent plans and steel structural systems stacked one atop the other, connected by geometric episodes of vertical circulation.

Tel Aviv Museum of Art Amir Building / Preston Scott Cohen - Beam

The new building refers to the original building in such a way that the two can be seen as having a family resemblance. At the same time, it relates to a larger tradition of the new that exists within Israeli architectural culture. The multiple vocabularies of Mendelsohn and Bauhaus Modernism in Tel Aviv are resynthesized in an architectural language that is internationalist and progressive in its cultural orientation.

Tel Aviv Museum of Art Amir Building / Preston Scott Cohen - Cityscape

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Cite: "Tel Aviv Museum of Art Amir Building / Preston Scott Cohen" 09 Nov 2010. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/87739/tel-aviv-museum-of-art-amir-building-preston-scott-cohen> ISSN 0719-8884

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