Architect Day: David Chipperfield. David Chipperfield is an architect who serves as inspiration for many artists.
His eye on all aspects of architecture and design is fascinated by the intensity and feeling that his projects present. Photos from site davidchipperfield.co.uk. Sir David Alan Chipperfield was born in London in 1953. He studied at Kingston School of Art and the Architectural Association in London. After graduation he worked in large offices such as Douglas Stephen, Richard Rogers and Norman Foster, which he had a great experience acquiring extensive knowledge, certainly serving as inspiration for his own work.
In 1984 he founded his own firm, David Chipperfield Architects and has accumulated more than 40 national and international competitions, behind them the RIBA, RFAC, AIWA Awards and RIBA Stirling Prize in 2007. Ernsting Service Centre, Germany. House in Berlin, Germany. "I wanted people to be able to find their way about but also to be able to lose themselves. " River and Rowing Museum, Henley-in-Thames, UK. David Chipperfield Architects. Courtyard Canteen .
Berlin photos: © Ute Zscharnt for David Chipperfield Architects . + baunetz Berlin Chipperfield's office has leased out part of his courtyard space to a restaurant called Kantine (canteen). David Chipperfield Architects - Turner Contemporary Gallery . Margate. David Chipperfield - andreasturm office building . zurich. David Chipperfield Architects. David Chipperfield musée des beaux-arts . reims. David Chipperfield . + baunetz David Chlpperfield Architects has won the competition to design the new Museedes Beaux-arts in Reims.
The site for the museum of art is on the periphery of a long green space between Reims' old and new town. The building is composed of three bar-formed volumes with mono-pitched roofs and has a translucent facade, clad with marble and glass ceramic panels. A twelve metre high hall creates a transition space between inside and outside, spanning an existing excavation site with mediaeval findings. The exhibition galleries, which progress chronologically upwards over three floors, display art from the 15th to the 21st century. David Chipperfield kunsthaus . zurich. David Chipperfield . + baunetz The Kunsthaus Zurich, built in the early 20th century with extensions from the 1920s, 50s and 60s, is to be expanded once again.
A spacious new building on the opposite (northern) side of Heimplatz is planned. Together with the Schauspielhaus (theatre) on the east side of the square, a ‘gateway to the arts’ is to be developed between the university quarter and Zurich’s cultural institutions in the city centre – a sequence of representative buildings, squares and green spaces situated in the area where the baroque city walls were razed to the ground, stretching from Heimplatz to the Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule (university).
While the existing museum will predominantly house the Old Masters, the Giacometti collection, Swiss art and popular large-scale exhibitions, the new extension will display classic modernism and art starting from the 1960s as well as the ‘Buehrle Collection’ with its new focus on French painting and Impressionism. David Chipperfield . HOK slam east building . saint louis. Opening of the Museum's more than 200,000-square-foot East Building, designed David Chipperfield with technical assistance from HOK. © Simon Menges The Museum's collections span some 5,000 years and feature masterpieces from the ancient Mediterranean, Asia, Africa, the Islamic world, Europe and the Americas.
All aspects of the collections will be celebrated at the time of the opening. The East Building galleries dedicated to the permanent collection will explore developments in American art after World War II. Beginning with American responses to Surrealism and the emergence of Abstract Expressionism, the presentation will proceed to movements including Minimalism, Pop and Process art.
David Chipperfield's design joins the two buildings seamlessly with a new Grand Stair, which also establishes clear and organic connections among primary circulation axes. David Chipperfield Architects. David Chipperfield Architects.