Lund, Robert Søren : ARKEN - MUSEUM OF MODERN ART. At Ishøj, Denmark

Author: Møller, Henrik Sten
Country: Denmark
Language: English
Year Published: No year
No. of pages: 16
Illustrations: 37 Color Illustrations. 4 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 12”x 9”
Weight: 0.00
ISBN: None
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 4230

Price: $21.50

The Museum of Modern Art, Arken (The Ark) was built in response to a 1988 architectural competition, but was completed in 1996, as part of Copenhagen’s new architectural efforts as the European Cultural Capital. In its atypical coastal landscape, the museum building appears as a metaphor for a stranded ship. The main features of the museum are activity, movement and the spatial experience. The curved spatial sequences, with lines pointing towards the beach, decisive building touches like bridges and axes, dragons and bowsprits and enormous gutters all stretch out into the landscape towards harbors, bays and the sea beyond.