Modern Art Museum
The Modern art museum, with 7,000 m² floorspace, consists of two new buildings constructed upon the rests of two plant buildings. The architects developed the new buildings in the original dimensions on the basis of old photographs showing the steam generating water-tube boiler section of the power plant, from which at one a wall and at the other one the grounds only had survived.
The reinforced concrete buildings have steel and glass exteriors, and are five stories high. The two buildings are connected with a glass passage. The galleries are separated with mobile drywalls in gray and white matching the colors of rust and brown. The facades of the buildings are covered with gray-colored aluminium mesh, which on the day allow the daylight enter the interior, and at night make the buildings shining like a lantern in the darkness. They can be used also as a projection screen.
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