Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec in Québec, Canada

August 16, 2010 Category: Commercial Building, Office

Located in Québec, Canada, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec was designed by Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), has won the competition for a major expansion to the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ).

The 12,000 sq. m. new building, a cascade of three overlapping boxes at the juncture of downtown Quebec City and the historic Battlefields Park, will be OMA’s first built project in Canada.
MNBAQ President Pierre Lassonde and the Quebec Minister of Culture, Mme. Christine St-Pierre announced OMA’s wining design toady. The design, led by OMA partners Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas in collaboration with associate Jason Long, was selected from five submissions by architecture firms.

OMA’s expansion of MNBAQ – linked underground with the museum’s three existing buildings – is located on Quebec’s main promenade, Grande-Allée, adjacent to St. Dominique Church. The design aims to integrate the building with the surrounding park and initiate new links with the city. Three stacked galleries of decreasing size – housing contemporary exhibitions (50m x 50m), the permanent contemporary collection (45m x 35m) and design / Inuit exhibits (42.5m x 25m) – ascend from the park towards the city, forming a cantilever towards the Grande-Allée and a 14m-high Grand Hall, which will be the public entrance to the new building.

Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec Design Architechture Plan