Zhang Daqian Museum, China (in construction)
Architect: Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
Year: 2010
Location: Neijiang, China
Category: Cultural / Museum
Status: Under Construction
About
The Barcelona studio EMBT is building a new museum dedicated to Zhang Daqian (1899-1983), one of the most prominent and sought-after Chinese artists of the 20th century. To go up in his hometown of Neijiang – in the province of Sichuan, in southwest of the country – the building evokes the painter’s friendship with Pablo Picasso proposing a design that blends the cultural essences of the East and West. Starting out from an existing tea house, the project arranges its pavilions around the garden in a play of topographical adaptation at different levels, and these are materialized by structural ribs with a vertical section inspired in the motifs and forms of the artist’s paintings... [+]