The 20-storey tower of wood, concrete and copper promises to be a playground for the mind, the eye and the fingertips
Herzog & de Meuron want you to put your hands on their architecture. “People often like to touch the walls of our buildings, and that is a good sign,” the firm’s co-founder Jacques Herzog said this week from his studio in Basel. “I like that, in old sites in Rome, sculptures will often have a glassy surface from people’s hands; it shows there are moments of tenderness.”
The gallery is still a vertical building, rising up 10 double-height floors and descending into a basement level for a theatre. Its form is still a series of horizontal slabs of varying thickness, suspended from a central vertical axis. And this structure is still surrounded by a low pavilion-like building that encircles the sloping, two-acre site at the former Larwill Park.
The ground-floor area is now an enclosed space, and the main entrance is now at ground level. In the previous iterations, the entire ground floor was an open-air courtyard and the entrance was one level below ground. Mr. Kiendl said these changes were made at Michael Audain’s suggestion. The project appears headed for construction after this week’s $100-million gift from developer and architecture patron Michael Audain.Art plays a part in this alchemy of place. HdM have engaged with visual art and artists throughout their career, and more than once have incorporated artworks into the facades of their buildings.
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