Last March 17, Art Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen groundbreaking ceremony denoted the latest creation of a new landmark for Rotterdam. MVRDV designed the architecture that will soon aid in the place's cultural advancement.
MVRDV's architecture and design magic touch will soon come in Rotterdam Museum Park. The design studio is already a known practice around the world. Now, it's going home to its home base in Netherlands.
According to MVRDV's official website, the public Art Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen will be an additional museum extension. Alongside Kunsthal, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Chabot Museum and Sonneveld House, its aimed to be a new cultural hub. It will allow more space for art exhibitions that residents and art visitors to see.
MVRDV's won the Art Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen design proposal. And it will include renovation of its present facilities to house new exhibition spaces, offices, bar, restaurant and other social spaces. Notably, it will also have separate collectors facilities that will allow private quarantine for personal arts.
Art Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen wants to bring the more art and culture awareness to everyone, Hence, it added the private art collections rooms. The philanthropic foundation De Verre Bergen's treasures will be the prime example of it.
According to Archdaily, MVRDV initially received the Art Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen design award since 2015. It's after Rotterdam's project planning commission approved it.
"Wunderkammer" or mirrored-museum is the name called for Rotterdam's Art Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen before. MVRDV will supposedly make the "Collection Building" enclosed in reflective glass. The design studio's breakthrough design is the reason why it got chosen.
The groundbreaking ceremony of the public Art Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen marked the "WunderKammer" project initialization. While its target completion date is on April 2018, it also hopes to open by the last quarter of 2019.
