In the Neighbourhood - Grey House | House of Grey
United Notions Collaboration Exhibition | Yuta Takahashi
Elements 007 | Callow and Schaedler
Chateau La Coste | Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano's firm used chunky concrete walls to frame the 285-square-metre building, which is submerged six metres into a valley so that its roof is level with the landscape.
The building is located in the grounds of the Château La Coste winery, which are also home to an arts centre and chapel designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, and installations by artists including Tracey Emin, Alexander Calder and Ai Weiwei.
Its raw concrete walls act as a neutral backdrop for works of sculpture and photography exhibited within the main 160-square-metre gallery space.
Two glazed end walls flood the gallery with light. They also slide open to form an entrance at one end of the building, and to connect with a terrace overlooking a pool at the other.
OMR Gallery | Max von Werz
A mid-century concrete structure in the heart of Mexico City has been renovated and extended to accommodate a contemporary art gallery.
Architects Mateo Riestra, José Arnaud-Bello and Max von Werz created a home for OMR Gallery within the brutalist-style building in the city's Roma neighbourhood, just a short distance from its previous space. After entering through a plant-filled vestibule and minimal reception area, visitors find a large open room designed to be constantly altered for various shows.So far, the concrete floor has been covered with a layer of sand for an exhibition of colourful paintings by Matti Braun, and additional partitions were put up to display photographs of Mexican theatres by Candida Höfer.
Gallery Space | ASWA
ASWA illuminates the enclosed gallery via a large central skylight which, when paired with strategic smaller windows and internal paneling, effectively fills the space with natural, directed sunlight. keeping internal columns to a minimum, the common area is an open and aerated central chamber whose space transitions smoothly into the various connected rooms. a sculptural floating stairwell is the main feature here, its steel spine and exposed wood steps elegantly guiding visitors to the second floor.
Bündner Kunstmuseum | Barozzi Veiga
June this year saw the opening of the new and incredibly designed building by Barcelona-based studio Barozzi Veiga — a project developed to be an extension of the Villa Planta, which accommodates the Bündner Kunstmuseum, in the Swiss city of Chur.
The striking cubic 4,000-square-metres building, an exercise of integration within an urban ensemble, is understood as an autonomous building, independent from the historical Villa Planta building, even though the design’s main efforts are aimed at reinterpreting those concepts that allow an architectural dialogue to be established between the two. Both buildings present a central symmetrical plan and use geometry as a tool for cohesion.
Black Balloons | Tadao Cern
This exhibition explores the themes of old-school minimalist convention based on heaviness and solidity of elements. Taken in a new direction by a visual combination entirely based on balloons tied in geometrical patterns. As the duality of heaviness and lightness is explored by Cern’s bid of opposing two gasses: helium and sulphur hexafluoride, each one vying for opposite directions and creating the fragile stability.
New Lisson Gallery | Studio Christian Wassmann + Studio MDA
Lisson Gallery open a new space under New York’s high line. The gallery house a contemporary artists within the white framed space with industrial flooring and high ceilings to perfectly show the work.