REİNA SOFİA ART CENTER – EXTENSİONFRANCİSCO SABATİNİ-JEAN NOUVEL 1980-2005

From Hospital to

MuseumIn 1788, after the stoppage of works with the death of Carlos III, the building was occupied, the Hospital, although it was not entirely built. Only one third of the Sabatini's proposed edifice was done. In 1977, it was declared a Historic-Artistic Monument. In 1980 the restoration work by Antonio Fernandez Alba began.In 1986, the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia opened.

The extension is formed by three buildings that basically house temporary exhibitions, Auditoriums and the Library. Within these, other requirements will be covered: art work storage, bookshop, offices, meeting rooms, a protocol room and the cafeteria-restaurant.

Three volumes: exhibitions, library, auditoriumThe accesses from inside the complex differ depending on their use. Each building and within these, each function has its own access. Likewise, the Library, the Auditorium or the cafeteria-restaurant may be entered directly from outside the Museum. 

The details of facade

The details of interior and exterior

space

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MUSEO EGIZIO DI TORINO 1824

PLANS

The new underground level of the seventeenth-century building in central Turin, a Baroque masterpiece which has housed the Museo Egizio (Egyptian Museum) since 1824. Turin's Museo Egizio will be open until the inauguration of the new structure in the museum complex in March 2015. By this date, the glass cases exhibited in the new hypogeum - transferred from the first floor, where works are continuing - will have made way for services to welcome in the public, from the ticket office to didactic rooms.

THE PHOTOS FROM INSIDE

ISTANBUL ARCHAEOLOGY MUSEUM ALLEXANDRE VALLAURY

GENERAL PLAN

PLAN I

The facade of the building was inspired by the Sarcophagus of the Mourning Women, both housed inside the Museum. It is one of the prominent structures built in the neoclassical style in Istanbul.

The Archaeological Museum, one of the most beautiful and glorious examples of the neo-classical architecture in İstanbul, has a very spectacular architecture especially due to its gorgeous façade. With the two entrances on the long façade, which are reached through wide stairs, and each of which is decorated with four columns and a pediment, it appears like a temple. The kufic inscription on the pediment in Ottoman Turkish says 'Asar-ı Atika Müzesi' (Ancient Artifacts Museum). The tughra (calligraphic seal) above this script belongs to the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II, who ordered the construction of the Old Building.

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