Copyright OMA, Photograph by Iwan Baan
The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) has announced that it will open its new building, the Pierre Lassonde pavilion, on June 24, 2016.  Designed by OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) in collaboration with Provencher_Roy architectes of Montréal, the pavilion will transform the 83-year-old institution?the first museum established by the government of Québec?while drawing together the street life of central Québec City and the landscape of the scenic Parc des Champs-de-Bataille.  Increasing the museum?s exhibition space by 90 percent, the new 14,900-square-metre pavilion will provide a spacious and distinctively contemporary gateway to the institution?s existing complex of buildings.  The Musée des beaux-arts du Québec, whose mission is to promote and preserve Québécois art from the ancient to contemporary periods and to showcase international art in Québec, will inaugurate the new pavilion with five exhibitions showcasing their impressive collections of contemporary Québécois and Inuit art.  The pavilion’s opening coincides with the Québec?s national holiday, La Fête nationale, which will be celebrated with three days of free public programs and festivities. 
Copyright OMA, Photograph by Iwan Baan
?Our design stacked three gallery volumes in a cascade that continues the topography of the park. The activity of the city extends below, providing a new point of interface between the city and th...