Add
the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, to a growing list
of museums, including the Guggenheim and the Louvre, that are launching
new satellites from the mother ship. Late last month, during
250th-anniversary celebrations of the Hermitage’s founding by Catherine
the Great, the New York architects Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture of Asymptote Architecture
signed a contract to design the Hermitage Modern Contemporary, an
outpost in Moscow that will draw on the Hermitage’s rich 20th-century
art collections and also display new work. With the Garage,
by Rem Koolhaas, which opened a month ago, and other new contemporary
museums popping up, Moscow is signaling an ambition to become a New
York-style art powerhouse.
The
140,000-square-foot, 15-story Hermitage satellite, with a
shrink-wrapped digital skin enclosing a porous, terraced interior, will
be part of a mixed-use district developed on the grounds of the former
ZiL auto plant, which manufactured limousines for Soviet leaders. The
LSR Group, a Moscow developer, will build a structure for Hermitage
20/21, a department of the museum that has organized contemporary
exhibitions since 2007. “Rather than being perceived as a museum dealing
only with the past, the Hermitage is pushing itself forward into the
future from its powerful historical position,” Mr. Rashid said. “Our
whole generation of architects looked to the Russian avant-garde of the
early 20th century, which made such a powerful break to the past. We’re
working within a tradition that we’re extending.”
Long
in the vanguard of digital design, he and Ms. Couture designed and
built a navigable, interactive Guggenheim online in 2000, perhaps the
first serious attempt at a virtual building, and have applied virtuality
to real projects, as with a wraparound digital environment off the
trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange and a futuristic undulating
glass carapace stretching like nylon around the Yas Viceroy hotel in
Abu Dhabi. “With so much museum work over the years, we’ve
dress-rehearsed for the Hermitage,” Mr. Rashid said. “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.”
Correction: July 18, 2015
Because of an editing error, a picture caption on Friday with a report in the Inside Art column about plans for a Moscow branch of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, described the image incorrectly. It shows a model of the planned branch, not a rendering.
Because of an editing error, a picture caption on Friday with a report in the Inside Art column about plans for a Moscow branch of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, described the image incorrectly. It shows a model of the planned branch, not a rendering.
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