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STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS. CITE DE L'OCEAN ET DU SURF Biarritz, France, 2005-2011 PROGRAM: exhibition area, auditorium, restaurant, cafeteria and offices CLIENT: City of Biarritz / Adim Sud Ouest SIZE: 3800 sm STATUS: completed The Cité de l'Océan et du Surf Museum intends to raise awareness of oceanic issues and explore educational and scientific aspects of the surf and sea and their role upon our leisure, science, and ecology.

The project, designed in collaboration with Solange Fabião, is comprised of a museum building, exhibition areas, and a plaza, within a larger master plan. The building form derives from the spatial concept "under the sky"/"under the sea". "The energising sense of physical engagement with the sea is palpable in the wave-like forms of the architecture. "Holl and Fabiao's design behaves in an iconic way that differs from architecture in neighbouring Bilbao and San Sebastian. Associate architects– Agence d'Architecture X.Leibar JM Seigneurin acoustical consultant– AVEL Acoustique. STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS. HERNING MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Herning, Denmark, 2005-Sep 9, 2009 PROGRAM: temporary exhibition galleries, 150 seat auditorium, music rehearsal rooms, restaurant, media library and administrative offices CLIENT: Herning Center of the Arts SIZE: 5600 sm STATUS: completed The Herning Center of the Arts unites, for the first time, three distinct cultural institutions: the Herning Art Museum, the MidWest Ensemble and the Socle du Monde.

The new Center is intended to be an innovative forum combining visual art and music. "The imaginative intersection of art, light, and architecture offers a fittingly dramatic setting for the exhibitions... " RIBA INTERNATIONAL AWARD 2010, UK, 2010DANSK BYGGERI IN SITU AWARD, Denmark, 2010INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE AWARD, USA/Ireland, 2010HERNING BUILDING OF THE YEAR, Denmark, 2010 local architect– Kjaer and Richter A/S mechanical engineer– Niras– Transsolar structural engineer– Niras landscape architect– Schønherr Landskab Link to External URL. STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS. HANGZHOU MUSIC MUSEUM Hangzhou, China, 2009 PROGRAM: exhibition space, performance space, commercial space CLIENT: Hangzhou City Planning Bureau / Hangzhou Normal University STATUS: competition first prize The Music Museum master plan design proposes to unify the campus through the voids between buildings - like a caesura in music.

The scheme identifies five voids between the buildings to form the overall morphology of the campus. The first void is the ancient garden with existing trees. The new Music Plaza is flooded in a thin layer of water. The new Music Museum is based on the idea of the "Eight Sounds" in traditional Chinese music: silk, bamboo, wood, stone, metal, clay, gourd, and hide. Architect– Steven Holl ArchitectsSteven Holl, Li Hu, Chris McVoy (design architect)Hideki Hirahara (associate in charge)Guanlan Cao, Filipe Taboada, Human Tieliu Wu (project architect)Yimei Chan, Nathalie Frankowski, Kelvin Jia, Max Kolbowski-Frampton, Fiorenza Matteoni (project team) STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS. THE NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART Kansas City, MO, United States, 1999-June 9, 2007 PROGRAM: museum addition and renovation CLIENT: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art SIZE: 165,000 sfCONSTRUCTION COST: $85,900,000 STATUS: completed This competition winning addition is composed of five interconnected structures as opposed to a single massive expansion.

Traversing from the existing building across its sculpture park, the five built "lenses" form new spaces and angles of vision. From the movement through the landscape and threaded between the light openings, exhilarating new experiences of the existing Museum will be formed. "Steven Holl has always emphasized the perceptual experience of his architecture and the transcendental role played by light in this experience. "Unlike many modern additions to historic museums, Steven Holl's 21st-century companion doesn't overwhelm the 1933 Beaux Arts original. '(…) The museum expects annual attendance to grow from 350,000 to 450,000 (…) Mr.

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