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- Please, Don’t Touch the MuseumThe Urban Art of the Museum Interior in the Design Competition for KANAL in Brussels
- Abstract
- On 27 March 2017, one of the most important architectural competitions in Brussels was announced: the Citroën Garage, an iconic building of roughly 45,000 m2 in the centre of the city and bordering the canal, would gain a new function as an art space and a public interior for the inhabitants of Brussels. Local and
international architecture practices joined forces, seven teams were selected to compete. The nature and ambition of the project touches several relevant issues of architecture in the contemporary city, ranging from the implementation of a temple of culture into the industrial heritage to what such a place is expected to be, by the clients, users and architects. Gideon Boie and Thomas Rasker (BAVO) discuss the seven projects as equal answers to the question. This kind of reading enables them to look at each proposal and to detect how urban the public interior can be in an existing, loaded condition of the Belgian (and European) capital.
- Citation
- Boie & Thomas Rasker BAVOGideon. (2018). Please, Don’t Touch the Museum. The Urban Art of the Museum Interior in the Design Competition for KANAL in Brussels. Microcosm . Searching for the City in Its Interiors, OASE, (101), 90–96. Retrieved from https://oasejournal.nl/en/Issues/101/Pleasedonttouchthemuseum
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- Editors of this issue
- Aslı Cicek, Christoph Grafe, Sereh Mandias, Daniel Rosbottom
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- Gideon Boeie & Thomas Rasker, Claudia Conforti, Fredie Flore, Casper Franken & Sereh Mandias, Christoph Grafe, Marius Grootveld, Aura-Luz Melis, Giulia Ricci, Daniel Rosbottom, Eireen Schreurs, Eva Stoorgaard
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- Karel Martens, Aagje Martens
- November 2018
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