 Akron Art Museum - Reviews from across the web
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New facility coming soon - user review
A new state-of-the-art facility is currently under construction for a late 2004/2005 re-opening. The permanent collection has some really interesting pieces for a city of Akro...
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Welcome to the Akron Art Museum
Ticking Crocs and Fairy Dust: Youthful Visions and the Art of Pe...
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Akron Art Museum - Architecture
The museum's design employs innovative engineering to generate a structure that is highly functional and energy efficient but also visually spectacular, providing a new landmark for the city. Prix asserts, The dream of the architect is to get rid of gravity. Throughout the building are cantilevered,...
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Coop Himmelb(l)au - Akron Art Museum :: arcspace.com
The floors of the Gallery Box and Crystal are composed of poured in place concrete slabs with water filled tubes that supply heating and cooling by changing temperature state of the massive floor slab. This radiant floor system is more efficient than simple forced air systems because it uses the mas...
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Coop Himmelb(l)au - Akron Art Museum :: arcspace.com
The inside of the Gallery Box is an independent space which is highly controllable and changeable, similar to a movie studio. It is one unified space with long span structure that can be built out freely based on the needs of each exhibit. Large scale works can be easily transported throughout the s...
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A Look at the New Akron Art Museum
WOW! was my immediate reaction as I viewed the new Akron Art Museum for the first time. One wouldn't necessarily think that a 19th century Italian Renaissance building would work well along side a 21st century glass and steel gravity defying structure, but both buildings emerge from the marriage bet...
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Akron Art Museum -- Profile of the Akron Art Museum
The new Akron Art Museum, designed by Coop Himmelb(l)au, features over 13,000 square feet of gallery space (triple the former space) and over 7,000 square feet of space for traveling exhibits. The new structure, which is attached to the original 1899 Renaissance Revival building, features a glass cl...
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Akron: Photo Tour Akron Art Museum
, established in 1922, is housed in this extraordinary Italian Renaissance Revival structure that was built in 1899 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The museum has an exhibition program of regional, national and international interest including comprehensive exhibitions as ...
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dezeen » Blog Archive » Akron Art Museum by Coop Himmelb(l)au
“COOP HIMMELB(L)AU’s design integrates a new 63,300 square-foot facility with the museum’s existing 21,000 square-foot, 19th-century Renaissance revival building, which was originally constructed as the City’s downtown post office. The expansion dramatically increases the museum’s abil...
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