[Fort Worth] Kimbell Art Museum Extension - Tadao Ando

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museum in Dallas Ft.worth
shot with sony T1 digital

Designed by Tadao Ando

here is some info
On July 18, 1996 (newsite.html) the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth announced that a 10.96 acre parcel of land in Fort Worth’s Cultural District had been acquired as the a site for a new museum building. Acquisition of the property was made possible by a generous grant from The Burnett Foundation of Fort Worth, Texas. Located directly opposite the Kimbell Art Museum, the new site is bounded by Arch Adams Street, Camp Bowie Boulevard, University Drive and Darnell Street.
On September 20, 1996 (sixarch.html), the museum’s Long Range Planning and Architectural Review Committee (javascript:launch1()) announced that six internationally prominent architects had been invited to submit design proposals for the new building. The competition (javascript:launch2()) participants were: Tadao Ando (ando_prop.html), Richard Gluckman (gluckman_prop.html), Arata Isozaki (isozaki_prop.html), Carlos Jimenez (jimenez_prop.html), Ricardo Legorreta (legorreta_prop.html) and David Schwarz (schwarz_prop.html).


On May 6, 1997 (ando.html), the Museum announced that Tadao Ando had been selected as the design architect for the Modern’s new building. Construction of the new museum began in the fall of 1999. The new Modern was completed in the summer of 2002 and opened to the public on December 14, 2002 (newmodopens.html).


Location

Kimbell Art Museum
3333 Camp Bowie Boulevard
Fort Worth, Texas 76107-2792

Main: 817-332-8451
Metro: 817-654-1034
Fax: 817-877-1264

Hours

Tuesdays-Thursdays and Saturdays 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Fridays noon–8 p.m.
Sundays noon–5 p.m.

Closed Mondays, New Year's Day, the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day.

Admission

Admission to the Museum's permanent collection is free. There is a charge for special exhibitions.

How to get there

From Dallas: I-30 west to University Drive exit (follow signs to Cultural District); north on University Drive to Lancaster (third traffic light); left on Lancaster one block to Arch Adams; right on Arch Adams; Museum is immediately on the left.

From Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport: Take south exit out of airport and follow signs to Fort Worth; Highway 183 west to 121; 35W south to I-30 west; see directions from Dallas, above.

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i will post some of the exibits after a while,

here is the modern museums web site
http://www.themodern.org/



enjoy

[primocordara]

Great pics, thanks!

[cacapis]

Thanks for posting this one again Jan! Great building.

[takesh h]

Thanks, great photos.
You might have written before at PPB1, but what was your impression of the building? :wondering

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I love Tadao Ando, so my opnions may be a bit bias... The structure from the front is not the most impressive, but as soon as you see the Tadao water and concrete design in the back you definately get the "AHHH HAAA" feeling walking through the front door.

The spacing inside is massive. As soon as walk in and look up, i am remined of a future monorail bridge coming through the structure. Then you see the massive reflecting pool.... made me feel at peace withthe structure... I feel like the addition of water softens the concrete... As you know Tadao really is a concrete master. The rest of the structure has many surprises, like the lawn on the second floor, and all the natural lighting make it feel even larger than it is.

If you have a chance you must see it.

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a few of the exibits

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some of andos original sketches

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NEW MODERN FACT SHEET

SIZE OF PROPERTY 10.96 acres LOCATION OF PROPERTY Opposite the Kimbell Art Museum, within the city's Cultural District; bounded by Arch Adams Street, Camp Bowie Boulevard, University Drive and Darnell Street PRESENT OWNER MPA Foundation, a non-profit entity created to facilitate the redevelopment of the property DESIGN ARCHITECT Tadao Ando Architect & Associates, Osaka, Japan ARCHITECT OF RECORD Kendall-Heaton Associates, Inc., Houston, Texas CONSULTING ARCHITECT Richard Fitzgerald & Associates PROJECT LEADERSHIP Peter Edward Arendt, AIA Director of Design & Construction, MPA Foundation GENERAL CONTRACTOR Linbeck Construction Corp. STRUCTURAL ENGINEER Thornton-Tomasetti/Ellisor-Tanner Engineers MECHANICAL/ELECTRICAL ENGINEER CHP & Associates CIVIL ENGINEER Huitt-Zollars, Inc. LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS SWA Group LIGHTING CONSULTANT George Sexton Associates WATER FEATURE CONSULTANT Waterscape Consultants, Inc. CURTAIN WALL CONSULTANT Peter M. Muller, Inc. FOOD SERVICE CONSULTANT Frank Clements Associates ACCOUSTICAL CONSULTANT Cerami & Associates, Inc. DATE BEGUN September 1999 COMPLETION August 2002 OPENING DATE December 14, 2002 COST $60 million SIZE OF NEW BUILDING 153,000 SF SIZE OF EXISTING BUILDING 42,000 SF NEW BUILDING GALLERY SPACE 53,000 SF EXISTING GALLERY SPACE 10,000 SF

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tadao ando is amazing

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5 the modern..........

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the mastermind

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What do you think of Tadao Andos work?

[jake]

Fantastic building. In fact, just last night there was an hour show on PBS "Making the Modern". Great show. The concrete pours were unbelievable, most done at night to control the surface of the concrete better. Too hot during the day.

They also went into great detail of design and construction of the Y columns and full scale mockups of the gallery spaces. Should be on again. I'll look up the schedule and post it when I find it.


Here's the Chicago area schedule. Great program.
http://www.pbs.org/tvschedules/tvschedulessearch_results.html?station=WTTW&keywordPBS=making+the+modern&channel=-1

[takesh h]

What do you think of Tadao Andos work?
I love architecture just like anybody else gathering around here.
When I go to see masterpieces, they make me think, be happy, feel comfortable, be struck with awe and so on...
But I have had something like sensory shock? I don't know what to call it...something beyond words, shiver? Three times when I was in spaces Ando created and I experienced nothing similar anywhere else.

This happened to me when I was
+ under one of small stairs of Rokko housing 2. the moment I looked up the lightwell
+ about to finish climbing a stair that goes from a courtyard to one of corridors. the moment when I touched the left side wall (RIN's gallery)
+ on a narrow hallway of Time's 1. the moment I saw people passed by through a slit in the wall of concrete block.

funny thing is, I feel like I remember everything what I was experiencing at those moments.
I definitely remember my pasture (like which way I was turning my head) and how dim the backside of the stair was in Rokko.
I clearly remember the width between two side walls of the stair and the temperature of the concrete wall. And the direction of the wind when I was in Rin's gallery.
I can still tell how high the space was and what I saw through the slit of Time's, and what time it was.
All those memories are not in numbers (e.g. temperature, time, width) but I remember them as they were.
It is impossible to share these experiences with other people and now I see that explaining them in words make them only unbelievable.
I like some of his works and don't like some other, but because of these experiences I consider him very special.
And I know that he is after something beyond recognition (which is done by our brains).

What do I mean by "remember them as they were"? Example; I was walking around in Collezione by Ando and as I was about to leave the building, I touched a low concrete wall and the temperature of it brought me right back to Rin's gallery. Now that is a memory!

[Mikael]

Fantastic takesh h!

I once wrote a thesis on this titeled "The Phenomenology of Detail-Notes on sensory experience and its relation to Architectural Detail" or something like that. It is great that architecture can do that to you.

[takesh h]

Fantastic takesh h!
I once wrote a thesis on this titeled "The Phenomenology of Detail-Notes on sensory experience and its relation to Architectural Detail" or something like that. It is great that architecture can do that to you.

Yes those moments are very special to me and they happened almost eight to ten years ago.
I learned from those experiences how rich architecture can be, and the fact that somebody can control spaces this far still strikes me. This was the first time I put those experiences in words and hopefully they don't escape me because of what I did.

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thanks, I would love to see this program... i will try to find it her in texas.
Really appreciated.

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thanks for sharing, your explanation brought backe some details of my experience. The lobby in the modern put me in awe, so much so that i was with my wife and mother in law... and i just walked off without paying directly into the structure. They had to come and get me.... This photo shows the lobby.

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then i drove by one night and saw this.........
what an unbelieveable feeling, i had experienced the structure in the sunlight and it was beautyfull, then a completely different building emerged ant night...........

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[jake]

thanks, I would love to see this program... i will try to find it her in texas.
Really appreciated.

Just go to that same page, and find your area and it should pop up with schedule. It was produced by the Ft. Worth PBS affiliate. Pretty cool watching them assemble the columns. There is a DVD available too.

ps. I'm sure Ronen's already working on a render in Maxell too. Really great building.

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thanks agian jake! :cheers:

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unfortuneatly its not playing here in austin... i will call around a check some other cities

[dizzee]

As beautiful as the pictures are, nothing but visiting this amazing building does it justice. Truly a masterpiece.

[WilsonMetry]

... and i just walked off without paying directly into the structure. They had to come and get me....

Thats funny...I did the same thing at the new Guggenhiem in LA. I just started walking in, looking around like a dope...it was funny. :rolleyes: I said, " sure I'll be glad to pay" after they came after me.

I'll see if I can find the photos ofthe Gugg and post them. Anybody wanna see it?

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SURE POST EM UP :wondering :rolleyes:

[gary in westOz]

so what software do you reckon Ando's office use.
Or do you reckon he still hand draws.

[jparchitectus]

so what software do you reckon Ando's office use.
Or do you reckon he still hand draws.

There is no way a firm like his draws construction documents by hand...sketches sure...

[takesh h]

There is no way a firm like his draws construction documents by hand...sketches sure...
Surprise surprise... They DO. They once tried CAD but Ando said "each drawing should have a definite scale" and discarded the idea. Have you seen any drawings they produced? They are amazing.
Besides still drawing by hand+pencil+Tsquare, there are many many Myths around his office. They have no internet connection. There is only one phone in the entire office. no music whatsoever is allowed in the office...
I consider it not an office, but a monastery (they don't blew beer though, Michel!).

[jparchitectus]

Surprise surprise... They DO. They once tried CAD but Ando said "each drawing should have a definite scale" and discarded the idea. Have you seen any drawings they produced? They are amazing.
Besides still drawing by hand+pencil+Tsquare, there are many many Myths around his office. They have no internet connection. There is only one phone in the entire office. no music whatsoever is allowed in the office...
I consider it not an office, but a monastery (but they don't blew beer, Michel!).

No wonder why Ando produces such great work. That is a pretty amazing feet these days to be able to produce the scale of work he does by hand...I have his complete works book, and there are some great diagromatic sketches in it. Worth Buying!

[jake]

I don't believe it.

[wegofaster]

it takes a real tallented group of people to produce hand drawings and make them a cohesive unit. Yet another amazing fact surrounding Tadao Ando

[takesh h]

it takes a real tallented group of people to produce hand drawings and make them a cohesive unit.
No. Ando just hits them (literally) really hard. and remember, he was a professional boxer in his youth....

I don't believe it.
which part? :wondering

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i guess he has to pull out the whip accasionally :D

[digdoi]

No. Ando just hits them (literally) really hard. and remember, he was a professional boxer in his youth...

I've heard that in his office bad employees are punished by his own hands... :eek:

[jake]

which part? :wondering

The 'by hand' part.

That's too incredible to believe that in this day and age that it is still being done like that way by a firm of that size. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for old world craftsmanship, but there has to be an advantage to using CAD. I guess since he his doing 'one of a kind' buildings without a lot of repeating floors or elements then he can get away with it.

[lavardera]

I heard they just got a computer to automate punching the employees - much more efficient that way.
:P

[mimilapin]

I'like it...
http://www.japonia.org.pl/obrazki/Architektura_wystawa/Wystawa_02.jpg

it'is silence, serenity, hope...

I'love arch. concrete (with wood :))


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o lala, thanks :))))))

[glovesave89]

I figured I'd post this here, not sure if it is the correct thread to (sorry, I'm new :( )...

I am looking to do an analysis project on the Modern Art Museum by Ando (I'm a second year student in the States), but cannot find any plans for this magnificent building. I have used all my resources, and cannot find any plans, so I figured I'd turn to you all for help....