Musée d?Art Moderne de Paris Building
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Musée d?Art Moderne de Paris
7 July 2020
Musée d?Art Moderne de Paris News
Location: Paris, France
Design: h2o architectes
Musée d?Art Moderne de Paris Building
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Refurbishing the Musée d?Art Moderne
Construction photos by Myr Muratet
The refurbishment project was carried out between July 2016 and October 2019. The brief was to improve the public reception area and the working environment for the staff. We set out to consolidate the structure, enlarge some of the spaces, update some of the technical installations, and also to create a connection between the various areas in order to give overall coherence to the museum.
As the museum remained open to the public throughout the project, we had to work doubly hard to complete the operation without disturbing visitors or staff. The refurbishment involved work on all floors and at every level, from relaying the foundations to the design of the furnishings and the signposting, and included demolition, decontamination, and creating new floors?
Rooting the building in its site
We wanted to open the museum out towards the city again. The entrance hall has been restored to its original volume; it is once again on the same scale as the forecourt and looks out onto it. The outside doors and windows have been reinstated to create a relationship between the inside of the building and the public space.
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