Diller Scofidio + Renfro Win Museum Competition At Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana
New York-based firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro has won the competition for the new Museum of Image and Sound (MIS) on Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro‘s postcard beach.
In announcing the winner yesterday, the governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Sérgio Cabral Filho, welcomed that the museum occupies the site of a former infamous nightclub that became an area of prostitution and drug trafficking. ‘I always wanted to see another function,’ said the governor.
The cost of the museum project, which will include extensive external access ramps and windows showing different angles of the Copacabana beach, is estimated at 65 Million Brazilian Real (35 Million US Dollar), including 50 Million paid by the local government. The rest comes from private sponsors including the Roberto Marinho Foundation.
The new Museum of Image and Sound will occupy 4,500 m2 (48,500 sf) with rooms for permanent and temporary exhibitions, facilities for research, a panoramic restaurant, an open-air auditorium and others. Construction will take two and a half years.
The current MIS was founded in 1965 in the center of Rio. It houses 22 collections bringing together the most valuable variety (photos, posters, films, videos, newspaper clippings) to be transferred to the Copacabana.
Seven of the largest architecture firms in Brazil and the world have participated in the contest, including Brazilian practices Bernardes & Jacobsen, Isay Weinfeld, Brasil Arquitetura, and Tacoa Arquitetos and international players Diller Scofidio + Renfro (USA), Daniel Libeskind (USA), and Shigeru Ban (Japan).
Deserved win! Most of the entries look horrible – the last one looks like a shoe box
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Holy Cr*p! They have spent millions on this building! Wow. :O Unbelievable! That must be on kick *ss museum! This is going to be on my list of “Things to do (visit) before I pass”! Don’t worry, I have a long way to go. These structures are amazing, gorgeous, etc. I do not know what else to say! :O
Looks like the unpaid interns at Daniel Libeskind’s office still haven’t figured out what constututes a building. Libeskind’s entry is a disgrace to the profession.
Daniel Libeskind should go back to sweeping floors in Peter Eisenman’s office. He could not do worse at it than he is doing as an architect.
Is it a requirement to be a moron to work in Libeskind’s office or do people just end up that way after spending time under his cancerous influence? I mean, really, what mindless idiocy is this they presented?
Looks like it is time for Libeskind to hang up his pencils, crawl under a rock, and let the rest of the profession design decent buildings. The man is degenerating into complete idiocy.
I agree. This competition confirms that Daniel Libeskind and his staff are the world’s greatest jackasses. How do they look anyone in the eye when they are responsible for mindless garbage like this?
While I am no fan of Libeskind’s entry, I think you all are too harsh. He has done some amazing buildings, like the Jewish museum in Berlin. And even if you don’t like his work, its unfair to abuse his employees. For better or worse, his work is under his control, not his interns.
Karnevalen i Rio är en av fantastisk upplevelse, att se hela staden dansa och röra sig så som den gör är väl unnat dom som åker dit för att uppleva Rio.