The Kunsthaus Graz Art Museum in Graz, Austria, is a gigantic blob-shaped building with a dozen or so tube like nozzles, acting as windows, that stick out from its curved roof, giving the structure an undeniable alien creature like look. Indeed, its designers, London architect Peter Cook and Colin Fournier, have themselves named the building the “Friendly Alien”. Inside the beast’s belly are two huge floors for modern art exhibitions.
Located on the west bank of the River Mur in the historic center, the Graz Art Museum was built as part of the European Capital of Culture celebrations in 2003, and has since become an architectural landmark in Graz.
The building’s roof is made from thousands of acrylic glass panels that generates energy with built-in photovoltaic panels. The outer skin is embedded with some nine-hundred fluorescent rings that can be individually programmed, creating a work of art on the structure itself.
Photo credit: Marion Schneider & Christoph Aistleitner/Wikimedia
Photo credit: Landesmuseum Joanneum
Photo credit: Maleen Diestel
Photo credit: www.graztourismus.at
Photo credit: www.graztourismus.at
Photo credit: www.graztourismus.at
Photo credit: www.graztourismus.at
Photo credit: www.graztourismus.at
Photo credit: Maleen Diestel
Sources: Inhabitat / Austrai.info
That is one of the ugliest buildings I've ever had to look at. And it's an ART museum. Please tell me the art is worth traversing that monstrosity. Are architects purposely building ugly buildings?
ReplyDeleteYes, modern architects are purposely building ugly buildings (not to mention in total disaccord with their surroundings). Next question!
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