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Tel Aviv Museum of Art Amir Building / Preston Scott Cohen

Over the past year, weve been followingthe developmentandearly constructionof Preston Scott

CohensTel Aviv Museum of ArtAmir Building. The 195,000 square ft building has recently beencompleted and now, the museum is open to the public. The $55 millionHerta and Paul AmirBuildingwill provide the space needed to permanently display one of the worlds largest collectionsof Israeli art. From its earlier beginning in 2002, Preston Scott Cohens proposal has been furtherdeveloped and refined, culminating in the strong geometric aesthetic typical of Cohens designideas. Paul Amir, a philanthropist who, with his wife Herta, has provided the naming gift for thebuilding, stated, We feel privileged to have been able to advance the work of the Tel AvivMuseum of Art, an institution that is truly at the heart of Israels creative community. With thisexceptional building by Preston Scott Cohen, and with the ability to showcase the work of Israels

artists as never before, the Museum now has the potential to step up to a prominent new role on theinternational scene, to the benefit of everyone.

As we have previously reported, the building has five levelstwo above grade and three belowwhich subtly twist to connect the disparate angles between the galleries and the context whilerefracting natural light into the deepest recesses of the half buried building. Preston Scott Cohenexplained, The Museums program set the challenge of providing several floors of large, neutral,

rectangular galleries within atight, idiosyncratic, triangularsite. The solution we proposedwas to square the triangle by

constructing the levels ondifferent axes, which deviate

significantly from floor to floorand are unified by the Lightfall.This decision enabled us tocombine two seeminglyirreconcilable paradigms of thecontemporary art museum: themuseum of neutral white boxes,which provides optimal, flexible

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space for theexhibition of art,and the museum ofspectacle, whichmoves visitors andoffers a remarkablesocial experience.

In this way, theAmir Buildingssynthesis of radicaland conventionalgeometriesproduces a newtype of museumexperience, onethat is as rooted inthe Baroque as it isin the Modern.

For the inauguration of the new 9,000-square-foot temporary exhibitions gallery in the AmirBuilding, the Museum will present Kiefer in Tel Aviv, a site-specific exhibition organized byMordechai Omer in collaboration with the artist. Large-scale works by Kiefer inspired by themes ofthe Hebrew Bible, Jewish myths and mysticism and German-Jewish history will surround two ofthe artists monumental enclosures: East-West, housing 44 huge metal plates imprinted with imagesof paintings and objects, and a specially conceived version of The Library, whose multiple pewterand lead books are a record of diagrams and photographs.

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Preston Scott Cohensoffice sent us drawings of hisTel Aviv Museum of Artto add to theimagesof the recently opened museumwe shared earlier in the week. Preston Scott Cohen explained,Conceptually, the Amir Building is related to the Museums Brutalist main building (completed

1971; Dan Eytan, architect). At the same time, it also relates to the larger tradition of Modernarchitecture in Tel Aviv, as seen in the multiple vocabularies of Mendelsohn, the Bauhaus and theWhite City.The gleaming white parabolas of the faade are composed of 465 differently shaped flatpanels made of pre-cast reinforced concrete. Achieving a combination of form and material that is

unprecedented in the city, the faade translates Tel Avivs existing Modernism into a contemporaryand progressive architectural language.

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East Elevation

Project Team: Preston Scott Cohen, principal in charge of design; Amit Nemlich, project architect; Tobias

Nolte, Bohsung Kong, project assistants

Size: 18,500 m2, built on a triangular footprint of approximately 4,500 m2

Cost : 45 million (estimated)

Leadership : Mordechai Omer,Director and Chief Curator, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Key Dates : Architectural competition: 2003; Design development and construction documents:2005-06; Groundbreaking: 2007; Opening: October 2011

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