The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art has unveiled plans for a major new building designed by Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye, which is on show at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Set to become India's largest art and culture centre, the museum is under construction on a 100,000-square-metre site in Delhi.
The design is revealed for the first time in the form of a scale model created by David Adjaye's firm, Adjaye Associates, for the Curator's Special Projects section of the biennale.
The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art is under construction in Delhi, India
Scheduled to open in 2026, the building will facilitate the expansion of the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), a museum led by one of India's most prominent collectors of contemporary Indian art. Kiran Nadar established the museum in 2010. It currently operates across two small venues, in New Delhi and Noida, and has a collection of more than 10,000 works.
The new KNMA will bring visual arts, music, dance and theatre all together under one roof. "The collection was growing and I felt we needed a stand-alone space," Nadar told Dezeen.
"We want to make it a destination," she explained. "My hope is that art and culture will feed on each other; we want a multi-dimensional institution where people from different walks of life will come and spend a day."
The design is by Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye
Adjaye Associates is working with Indian architecture firm S Ghosh & Associates on the p...