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mima - new Middlesbrough art gallery, County Durham, northeast England
Nov 2006
Erick van Egeraat Associated Architects
mima photos © Christian Richters from EAA 060207:
Location: Middlesbrough town centre adj. Carnegie Library
Close by: 'Bottle of Notes' - Claes Oldenburg & Coosje Van Bruggen
Sculpture
mima photo © Marcus Ginns from EAA 060207:

Middlesbrough
Institute of Modern Art - mima building: PR from EAA May 07
mima building: PR from EAA Feb07:
Erick van Egeraat's MIMA Gallery - Key to Middlesbrough Revitalisation
Rotterdam, 6 February 2007 - Erick van Egeraat has completed a new building
for the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA) in the UK. The project
is part of an urban regeneration scheme and includes the creation of a
new public square. EEA's design won an international competition in 2002.
The square has been designed in co-operation with West 8 landscape architects.
Building and square are situated on a formerly abandoned territory on
the brink of the city centre. Together they form the key element in Middlesbrough's
revitalisation programme.
The scale of gallery and square relates to the surroundings and the use
of materials respects the existing buildings. White limestone and glass
make the gallery a light, transparent and accessible building. The interplay
of grass combined with a subtle pattern of oxidised metal panels creates
connections across the square and gives the once neglected area a friendly
and inviting appearance.
The decisive space of the gallery is a foyer with a height of more than
16 meters revealing a central staircase, which is framed by a suspended
stone curtain. The foyer with its transparent façade forms a transition
space, linking gallery and public square and stimulating interaction between
the two.
Citizens are invited to engage with the square to create public life and
embrace the gallery as heart of the new cultural quarter of Middlesbrough.
MIMA Gallery: Building PR from Erick van Egeraat 060207
Middlesbrough
building : Erick van Egeraat
County Durham Architecture welcome: info@e-architect.co.uk
Middlesbrough
Institute of Modern Art : RIBA Awards 2007 shortlist - North East
Region
World Architecture : e-architect
- a guide to key buildings across the globe
Comments or building suggestions / photos for the Middlesbrough Architecture
page
welcome: info@e-architect.co.uk
Middlesbrough Institute of
Modern Art - page : adrian welch / isabelle lomholt
Middlesbrough art gallery, mima - www.mima.uk.com
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