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Architects: Hans van Heeswijk Architects
- Area: 15175 m²
- Year: 2015
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Photographs:Ronald Tilleman, Luuk Kramer
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Manufacturers: Kingspan Insulated Panels, Bauporte Design Entrance, North Glass, Octatube
Text description provided by the architects. The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is one of the Netherlands’ most popular museums. The ever-growing stream of visitors required intelligent solutions for these buildings, which were designed by Rietveld (1973) and Kurokawa (1999). The design consists in broad outlines of a further elaboration of the elliptical wing of the building that Kurokawa had built in Amsterdam in 1999. Kisho Kurokawa Architect and Associates, the firm founded by the late Kisho Kurokawa and designer of the temporary exhibitions wing opened in 1999, prepared the draft design for the new entrance hall. Hans van Heeswijk Architects then elaborated on this to create a solution in which the existing wing and the new structure form a surprising new whole.
