Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland, United States
Located in Cleveland, United States, Museum of Contemporary Art was designed by Foreign Office Architects. This bold design reflects Cleveland’s new direction, embracing its vibrant service industry and shrugging off the remains of its heavy manufacturing origins. The city has worked hard on its regeneration programme and is now considered an exemplar for public-private partnerships, downtown revitalisation, and urban renaissance.
At 34,000 sq ft, the museum is still small, in fact less than a tenth of London’s Tate Modern which weighs in at 371,350 sq ft but the bar has been raised on this building type since 1997 with the opening of Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum which launched Bilbao onto the world stage.
The site is suitably dominant, wedged between the corner of Euclid Avenue and Mayfield Road, where it will act as the gateway to the Uptown project, a $150 million-plus development aimed at revitalising an urban dead zone with shops, restaurants, apartments and culture.
Winning a museum commission today, is one the holy grails of architecture and a contemporary art venue now increasingly serves as a magnetic hub for a city’s cultural community. Positioned within University Circle’s academic life, art school activity, and cultural offerings, MOCA will aim to infuse this new district with energy and life, day and night. The building is designed to showcase a program of internationally emerging art in flexible gallery spaces. The lobby is designed as an urban living room, a place for visitors to mingle, eat, shop, attend events, over the course of hours, or for brief interludes in a busy day.
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Museum of Contemporary Art Design by Foreign Office Architects
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