![](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5615/602a/e58e/ce8a/2c00/0022/medium_jpg/1.jpg?1444241445)
Today in Moscow, Asymptote Architecture unveiled plans for the new Hermitage Modern Contemporary, alongside a 150-meter tower planned for ZiL - the city's oldest industrial area and former Soviet automotive factory. The State Hermitage Museum's newest outpost, the 15-story satellite facility was said to be inspired by El Lissitzky's "Proun" painting, which informed the building's "terraced interior."
“With so much museum work over the years, we’ve dress-rehearsed for the Hermitage,” Hani Rashid of Asymptote told the New York Times back in July. “We’ve done a lot of thinking about how art might be seen in the future, about how the museum building itself can provoke artistic responses.”
The porous 140,000-square-foot museum will be wrapped in a digital skin and be used to exhibit the Hermitage's influential collection of 20th-century art. It is expected to be built in 2019.
![](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5615/601f/e58e/ce65/6500/0020/medium_jpg/2.jpg?1444241434)
The ZiL tower, which Asymptote also revealed today, will break ground by 2017. Its program will be devoted largely to housing, with its base being used for offices and retail.
![](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5615/6054/e58e/ce65/6500/0024/medium_jpg/6.jpg?1444241486)
Asymptote will be collaborating with SPEECH on both projects.
News via New York Times, archi.ru, MSK Agency