Datong Art Museum Building, Shanxi
Datong Art Museum Building, Foster + Partners China Project, Chinese Cultural Design, Architect
Datong Art Museum Building, China
5 January 2022
Datong Art Museum opens to the public
Design: Foster + Partners
Location: Datong, Shanxi Province, China
Photos by Yang Chaoying
Drawings by Foster + Partners
Datong Art Museum
Datong Art Museum ? an important new cultural destination in China ? has opened to the public with a special exhibition featuring oil paintings by local artists. One of four major buildings within Datong New City?s cultural plaza, it is set to become a new hub for creative industries in the region.
The building?s sculptural form has been conceived as a landscaped terrain with a series of interconnected pyramids emerging from below the earth ? the gallery spaces are sunken below ground and surrounded by landscaped plazas. Complementing the museum?s cultural programme are a series of spaces dedicated to education and learning, including a children?s gallery, media library, archive and art storage facilities.
Luke Fox, Head of Studio, Foster + Partners, said: ?The museum is conceived as a social hub for people ? an ‘urban living room’ for Datong ? that brings people, art and artists together in a space where they can interact. At the heart of the museum, the Grand Gallery exemplifies this spirit with a generously scaled, flexible exhibition space designed to accommodate specially commissioned large-scale artworks as well as performance art and ...
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