The new building for the Ibere Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre, Brazil designed by Portugal´s Alvaro Siza, is a big rectangular white concrete structure. It has a big central space enclose by circulations and exhibition spaces. Some of this circulations separate from the main body as arms going out through the facade.
Text from Ibere Camargo Foundation
The Iberê Camargo Foundation is building its new headquarters at Avenida Padre Cacique, 2000. Designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira, the Project won the Golden Lion at the 2002 Venice Architecture Biennial and will be an architectural reference not only for Porto Alegre, but also for Brazil.
The building will house the collection of more than 4000 works by Iberê Camargo, and will have 9 exhibition rooms, an etching studio, a multi-use studio, an auditorium, a research and information center, an atrium, a bookshop, a café and underground parking. It will exhibit works by Iberê and artists from Brazil and abroad, and will also develop a broad programme of activities in the field of modern and contemporary art.
(via: Archdaily)
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