Update: Institute for Contemporary Art / Steven Holl Architects

Institute for Contemporary Art / Steven Holl Architects. Photo by ArchDaily

Recently, we visited the Meulensteen gallery to hear an update on Steven Holl’s latest project in Virginia - the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University. Slated for completion in 2015, the project was presented in a series of Holl’s trademark watercolors and models, complete with a slideshow given by project architect Dimitra Tsachrelia who previously worked on the Glasgow School of Art for the firm. As we shared earlier, the project’s formal gestures are a reaction to its site context along the busy intersection of Richmond at Broad and Belvidere, with the intention to create an open gateway with a building that forks in the X-Y direction to illustrate the “non-linear” path of art, and torques in the Z direction to shape a dynamic volume of circulation. Although the weather was quite unforgiving, those who packed into the gallery enjoyed Tsachrelia’s friendly demeanor as she walked us through the process and progress of the project.

More about the event after the break. 

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Cite: Karen Cilento. "Update: Institute for Contemporary Art / Steven Holl Architects" 06 Jun 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/241847/update-institute-for-contemporary-art-steven-holl-architects> ISSN 0719-8884

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