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Floating Pavilion in Almere, NL
30 June 2022
Design: Studio Ossidiana
Location: Almere, Holland

Photos: Riccardo de Vecchi for M
Floating Museum Pavilion, Holland
The Dutch city of Almere was built on reclaimed land where once was the Zuiderzee: a shallow sea bay in the Netherlands. The first house in this planned New Town was completed in 1976. Since then, the city has grown to a population of nearly 220.000, which means Almere is well on its way to being the fifth-largest city in the country.

However, Almere lacks a museum of note, befitting a city of such stature. Local, provincial, and national government administrators agreed that a museum should be on top of the priority list to raise the city’s appeal. Instead of establishing one immediately, it was decided to first experiment with a temporary art pavilion for immersive art with plenty of room to develop and test new ideas over the coming years. The museum-to-be was named M., claiming the first letter of its possible future destiny. In April, M.?s home base – a beautiful floating pavilion on the grounds of Floriade Expo 2022 ? opened its doors. In the ingenious design by young duo Studio Ossidiana, there are numerous links to the history of Almere, a city rising from a former sea.
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