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The Parrish Art Museum is an art museum designed by Herzog & de Meuron Architects and located in Water Mill, New York, whereto it moved in 2012 from Southampton Village. The museum focuses extensively on work by artists from the artist colony of the South Shore (Long Island) and North Shore (Long Island). The Parrish Art Museum was founded in 1898.
Herzog & de Meuron Basel Ltd. was founded in 1978 in Basel, Switzerland, by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, graduates of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) in 1977. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The firm initially gained recognition for minimalist designs and innovative use of materials, such as the Blue House in Oberwil (1980) [ 6 ] and ...
The building is designed by Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron, [12] who were hired by Terence Riley, director of the museum in 2009, when plans were made. The structure is meant to resemble Stiltsville , [ 13 ] which is the name given to a group of wooden houses built on stilts that stand off the coast of Key Biscayne in Biscayne Bay .
Jacques Herzog (born 19 April 1950) is a Swiss architect and a founding partner along with Pierre de Meuron of the architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron. [1] Some of the most well-known projects by Herzog & de Meuron include the conversion of the Bankside Power Station into the Tate Modern in London, the Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg, and the Beijing National Stadium, also known as ...
The project is the result of a private initiative by the architect and real estate developer Alexander Gérard and his wife Jana Marko, [5] an art historian, who commissioned the original design by the Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron, [6] [7] [2] who developed and promoted the project (since 2003 in cooperation with the Hamburg-based ...
The Schaulager in Münchenstein/Basel. The Schaulager is a museum in Newmünchenstein, a sub-district of Münchenstein in the canton of Basel-Country, Switzerland.. Built in 2002/2003 under commission of the Laurenz Foundation, it was designed by the renowned architectural office of Herzog & de Meuron, the Schaulager opened in 2003.
From 1999, the original building was redesigned by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, using a masterplan devised by Norman Foster.After gutting the original industrial building an exhibition space of 3,600 m 2 (39,000 sq ft) was created across three storeys.
The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art (often referred to as the Blanton or the BMA) at the University of Texas at Austin is one of the largest university art museums in the U.S. with 189,340 square feet devoted to temporary exhibitions, permanent collection galleries, storage, administrative offices, classrooms, a print study room, an auditorium, shop, and cafe.