Ordrupgaard Museum Extension
(7 votes, average: 4.14 out of 5)
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Vilvordevej 110
(north of Copenhagen)
Charlottenlund
DK-2920 Charlottenlund
Denmark
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55.7671700 12.5630159
Building names(s): Ordrupgaard Museum Extension
Architect/Designer: Zaha Hadid
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mesuem website: www.ordrupgaard.kdgetting there:
Train to Klampenborg or Lyngby Station, then bus 388 to Vilvordevej and a 2 minutes walk to the museum. Or bus 169, 179, 185 to Femvejen, which is about 20 minutes walk to Ordrupgaard.
Last update: 30 June, 2011 | Suggested By Simonne Deloit
(4 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)
The new building, a collaboration as usual with her design partner Patrick Schumaker, is a thing of almost natural curves, where Hadid normally does straight lines shooting off at sensational, Soviet Constructivist-style angles. It is made, principally, of concrete poured direct on site, and finished in much the same tone of lava grey that defines and haunts the paintings of Vilhelm Hammershoi, one of Denmark’s finest artists, some of whose best works hang here at Ordrupgaard.
Hadid’s concrete structure laps and folds around the new galleries it contains in an ingenious yet remarkably relaxed way. The gallery, although quietly exuding a calm presence, is a thing of complex geometry and was never going to be as easy to build as a garden shed. Yet this is Hadid at her gentlest, and a building that should win over those who think she only does full-on, headline-stealing sensation.