The Tel Aviv Museum of Art has won Best Museum Award in the prestigious Travel and Leisure Magazine Award 2012 for their new Herta and Paul Amir Building, which opened November 2, 2011. Travel and Leisure which is considered one of the most influential travel magazines in America, commended the Tel Aviv building, stating that « In contrast to many dramatically shaped new art museums, it succeeds in being at once breathtaking and deferential to the art on display. » While architect and T+L judge Billie Tsien, said: « The Tel Aviv museum is quite a piece of sculpture, but it is a sculpture that accepts art. »
Le site travelandleisure.com vient de récompenser le musée d’art de Tel-Aviv.
Coincé dans un virage serré, le site triangulaire du centre de Tel Aviv situé dans le complexe culturel, cette pièce de l’origami architectural utilise la torsion, appelé Lightfall, pour relier une série de simples galeries. Contrairement à de nombreux musées d’art aux formes nouvelles et spectaculaires, il réussit à nous couper le souffle et à respecter les règles de l’art.
Le Jury
« Le Musée de Tel Aviv est une véritable sculpture, mais il est une sculpture qui accepte l’art. » – Billie Tsien, architecte
Le Musée d’Art de Tel-Aviv a inauguré fin 2011 sa nouvelle extension. Conçue par l’américain Preston Scott Cohen, directeur de l’école d’architecture d’Harvard, cette nouvelle aile double sa surface d’exposition.
The 195,000-square-foot, $55 million building, was designed by Preston Scott Cohen, Inc., of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The freestanding concrete-and-glass building is a tour de force of complex geometry and light-filled space. The unique structure includes five levels – two above grade and three below – which twist from floor to floor, to accommodate large, rectangular galleries within the compact, irregular site.
Video-Mapping Herta and Paul Amir Building Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
Grand Opening 30 October 2011. Building design by Harvard architect Preston Scott Cohen. Featuring original song by Ivry Lieder with TYP band.
The Museum campus is located in the heart of Tel Aviv, immediately adjacent to the Golda Meir Cultural & Art Center (with the New Israeli Opera and the Cameri Theater) and the Beit Ariela Municipal Library. The existing main building, a 175,000-square-foot structure by Dan Eytan and Yitzchak Yashar, opened in 1971 and was expanded with an 11,300-square-foot Sculpture Garden (opened 1996) and the 32,300-square-foot Gabrielle Rich Wing (Dan Eytan, 1999).
