{"id":38480,"date":"2017-03-06T17:29:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T16:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/en\/nuuk-greenland-national-gallery\/"},"modified":"2017-03-06T17:42:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T16:42:58","slug":"nuuk-greenland-national-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/en\/nuuk-greenland-national-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"NUUK – Greenland National Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

The team of BIG<\/a> + TNT Nuuk<\/a> + Ramboll Nuuk<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0have won the competition to design the new National Gallery of Greenland\u00a0in the country\u2019s capital Nuuk, among invited proposals totaling 6 Nordic architects.\u00a0Located on a steep slope overlooking the most beautiful of Greenland\u2019s fjords, the National Gallery will serve as a cultural and architectural icon for the people of Greenland. The new museum will combine historical and contemporary art of the country in one dynamic institution The winning proposal was selected by a unanimous museum board among 6 proposals, including Norwegian Sn\u00f8hetta, Finnish Heikkinen\u2010Komonen, Islandic Studio Granda and Greenlandic Tegnestuen Nuuk.<\/p>\n

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The National Gallery aim to establish an internationally oriented highly professional institution that communicates the continuous project of documenting and developing the Greenlandic national identity through art and culture. A gallery where historic and contemporary art meets circumpolar pieces, Nordic and world art in general, an institution that stimulates curiosity, awake excitement with its thought\u2010provoking design and where to feel\u00a0at home.<\/p>\n

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As a projection of a geometrically perfect circle on to the steep slope, the new gallery is conceived as a courtyard building that combines a pure geometrical layout with a sensitive adaption to the landscape. The three\u2010dimensional imprint of the landscape creates a protective ring around the museum\u2019s focal point, the sculpture garden where visitors, personnel, exhibition merge with culture and nature, inside and outside.<\/p>\n

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\u201d The building will with its simplistic coarseness and harmony with the landscape become a symbol of the current independent Greenlandic artistic and architectural expression.\u201d, Andreas Klok Pedersen, Partner & Project Leader, BIG.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n