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ARCHITECTURE
FONDAZIONE
PRADA IN MILAN
Beyond the Realm
of Architecture
T here are buildings that led by Rem Koolhaas, the Fondazione Prada The 205,000-square-foot area combines post-
house art. Grand, staunch, combined seven existing buildings with three industrial and modern spaces, both intimate
impenetrable safe houses of our new structures: the Podium, Cinema and and expansive. The Deposito, which houses
cultural heritage. Then there Torre. Koolhaas is quick to point out that it the Fondazione's collection, is intriguingly
is architecture, a fusion of necessity, a shelter is not a preservation site of the original 1916 arranged, so states Koolhaas, as “…a hybrid
from the elements, but also an art, that in and distillery nor is it new architecture. Located of strict storage and partial display, creating
of itself inspires, and is a response to culture, in Largo Isarco in the south of Milan, it is a 'chambers' where work such as a fleet of artists’
time and space. combination of spaces that serve the purpose cars can be unpacked or half opened to the
of art display, preservation and inspiration. public.”
Conceived by the architecture firm OMA,
Photos Courtesy Of: roland halbe and bas princen.
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