OMA's Fondazione Prada Torre opens with quirky interiors and renowned contemporary art
A room filled with giant spinning mushrooms and a set of bright yellow-green bathrooms are among the surprises found inside the OMA-designed Torre, which opened last week as the final part of the Fondazione Prada arts complex in Milan.
Fondazione Prada Torre's debut exhibition Atlas includes the Upside Down Mushroom Room by Carsten Höller (2000)
The white concrete structure that towers over the converted industrial site in the south of the city began welcoming the public from 20 April 2018, coinciding with this year's Milan design week.
It marks the completion of the arts centre, which architecture firm OMA's Rem Koolhaas, Chris van Duijn and Federico Pompignoli have overseen with fashion brand Prada founder Miuccia Prada.
The exhibition includes numerous artworks from the foundation's collection, including pieces by Jeff Koons The first groups to explore the newly opened portion have been treated to works by some of the world's best-known contemporary artists, and were able to explore the building's quirky interior spaces.
Other works shown across the six floors of gallery space include Walter de Maria's Trilogies
Entering from a plaza, past a row of thin transparent columns, visitors are faced with giant elevator doors. Inside, the lift is half lined in marbled pink, while the other half is almost entirely glazed.
This enables panoramic view across the complex's tiled roofs and instantly recognisable gold building, once the box emerges from a diagonal shaft that support...
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