On Sunday, full-page ads appeared in both the New York and Los Angeles Times with the slogan “saveLACMA FROM TANKING.”
Peter Zumthor
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LACMA Renovation Is Shrinking Gallery Space, and Angelenos Are Confused About It
The new building will be smaller than the total area of the four current buildings which are fated to be torn down. No explanation for the shrinkage has been provided as of yet.
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A Timely Remembrance For Witch Hunts Of The Past by Louise Bourgeois and Peter Zumthor
A pilgrimage to visit Louise Bourgeois and Peter Zumthor’s Norwegian memorial made for victims of the witchcraft trials hits home.
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A Museum Built Among Ancient Ruins Impels an Inward Gaze
In other museums, fragments of the past are isolated into forgotten history, but at Kolumba, they are part of a dynamic whole.
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Peter Zumthor’s Minimalist Museum for Zinc Mining Takes Shape in Norway
Set to open in the summer of 2016, a sleek museum designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor for a Norwegian zinc mine has been over a decade in the making, although parts of the attraction are already in place.
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Television Tycoon Donates Modernist Trove to LACMA
The aging chairman of Univision Communications, Jerry Perenchio, has bequested a significant collection of modern art to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Los Angeles Times reported.
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Contemporary Architecture Goes Spiritual
A New York Times Magazine profile of Pritzker Prize winning-architect Peter Zumthor shows the his work engaging with the spirituality of space and human history, and exploring the most basic aspects of our sensual experience. The profile highlights Zumthor’s buildings as a return to the humanistic, spiritual side of contemporary architecture.