ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 438
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Fri Aug 7 13:15:05 PDT 2009
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PIANO IN CHICAGO
by Michael J. Crosbie
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Renzo Piano is known for his finely tuned designs,
especially for a refined talent in dovetailing elegant
new architecture with an existing context, playing on
contextual strengths without duplicating the neighbors.
He has achieved this feat once again at the Art
Institute of Chicago, where a light-studded new museum
wing by Piano opened in May 2009. The Art Institute's
new addition is laudable in its intelligent siting,
sensitive scale, urban presence, and manipulation of
light.
One of the country's most august institutions, the Art
Institute occupies an 1893 Beaux Arts building on
Michigan Avenue just south of Chicago's new landmark
Millennium Park. The Modern Wing, designed by Renzo
Piano Building Workshop in collaboration with
Interactive Design, increases the size of the Art
Institute by almost a third. At a bit over a million
square feet (93,000 square meters), the Art Institute is
now the second largest museum in the United States,
after New York City's Metropolitan.
The 264,000-square-foot (24,500-square-meter) addition
is organized as a three-story boxlike container in the
northeast corner of the site, accessed by a generous
entry, just west of the box, into Griffin Court and a
slender bar of spaces farther west. The court serves as
a light-filled "living room" of sorts - a grand
public space that says that you have arrived, and leads
you deeper into the Art Institute's existing fabric,
including the original 1893 building and later
additions. The Art Institute wanted a second entry
worthy of its formal, lion-bedecked facade on Michigan
Avenue, and Piano has provided one - less stuffy,
but every bit as serious.
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Postcard from Maple Grove
by Kevin Matthews
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Dear ArchitectureWeek,
Inside and outside, this building comes across initially
as nice, but seemingly a bit buttoned down, handsome yet
perhaps a bit conventional in affect.
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People and Places
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California - Margulies Perruzzi Architects in Shrewsbury,
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