Gotebörg Museum of Art renovation and extension
Barozzi Veiga Hermansson Hiller Lundberg- Type Culture / Leisure Museum
- City Gothenburg
- Country Sweden
The Spain-based practice of Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga – in collaboration with the Swedish architects Hermansson Hiller Lundberg and the landscape architect Peter Korn – has won the competition to revamp the Göteborgs Konstmuseum.
A half-buried elongated plinth in front of the south facade of the historical building establishes a respectful and complementary relationship with the existing museum. The new volume, sensitive to the specific characteristics of the place, works out a rapport between the Gothenburg Museum of Art and the neighboring small-scale development.
The abstract and low-key facades, which present few openings, give the complex a certain continuity, but also produce a certain contrast with the existing edifice. The result is a dialogue between two architectural styles.
The distribution of the different uses generates a compact and flexible project that avoids any overly vertical organization. At a new main public level, the space between the old building and the extension becomes the institution’s central square, around which all the exhibition galleries are laid out.
Cliente Client
Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Higab
Equipo Team
Fabrizio Barozzi, Alberto Veiga (autores authors); G. Anserini, Y. Apostolopoulos, Chen-hsin Chang, S. Hallgren, M. de Pablo, C. Triassi
Colaboradores Collaborators
Hermansson Hiller Lundberg Arkitekter (arquitecto local local architect); P. Korn (paisajista landscape architect); R. Brufau (estructuras structure); Transsolar (sostenibilidad sustainability consultant); F. Bolognese (imágenes visualizations)