Russian practice Meganom has won a competition to redesign the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. Their winning entry seeks to transform the museum complex into a hive of cultural activity, preserving the institution's world-class art collection whilst "actively engaging with the surrounding territory as a potential space for exhibition, dialogue, and communication." The project focuses less on the provision of new areas but rather provides a single unified platform for a series of discordant parts, tying together all the elements of the environment into one cohesive design - "from buildings and monuments to benches and navigation."
The current state of the museum is fragmented. Housed in a series of inaccessible private mansions and historic monuments, not originally designed as public buildings, Meganom's proposal aims to bring a new level of cohesion to the institution. According to the architects, "the Pushkin Museum has become one of the most memorable icons of the city and is one of the most valuable architectural monuments: a temple of art and culture."
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