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Buildings
Architects
Chosen for Nam June Paik Museum in Korea
(archrecord.construction.com
- 9/30/03)
By Tony
Illia
 An
international design competition for the new 53,819-square-foot
Nam June Paik Art Museum in Korea has named Kirsten Schemel
Architeckten as its winner. The Berlin-based firm will receive
a $20,000 prize for its scheme, which calls for exhibition
galleries, a library/resource center, and an outdoor studio/sculpture
garden.
The new facility, dedicated to the works
of media artist Nam June Paik, will be located on an 8.15-acre
site in Yong-In, Province of Kyonggi. Among other things,
the museum will include a 3,552-square-foot site-specific
art installation by the Seoul-born Paik. The juried competition,
presided over by Odile Decq, saw over 940 applications from
53 countries. Organized by the Kyonggi Cultural Foundation,
the museum will create "a new paradigm for the fusion
of architecture and art" as well as promote the Province
of Kyonggi as an "international center of culture and
arts."
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