wHY architecture shared with us their proposal for the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Quebec (MNBAQ) international competition, which was won by OMA. See more images and architect’s description after the break.
Sited in Quebec City, Canada, the new pavilion is to add to the museum’s rich legacy and its campus of 3 buildings; one from each of the last three centuries. In the wHY design, the new building is designed not as a beautiful new wing but an act of architectural acupuncture. It is conceived and carefully inserted into the site as a truly harmonizing place that physically as well as symbolically invigorates everything around it. With a program just over 10,000 sq.m, the builidng blossoms out of the ground with an unfolding form to allow the neighboring park to slip into the heart of the museum.
