Amsterjam by Evan Wakelin.
A City and a Book by Furuya Takahiro via gurafiku.
FRAKTUR by Berg via Editions of 100.
Imaginary Pool Section by billychung via drawingarchitecture.
24-Hour Museum by AMO and Francesco Vezzoli via OMA.
For the 24-Hour Museum, AMO collaborated with Prada and artist Francesco Vezzoli to transform the 1937 Palais d’Iéna into the venue for a social and architectural laboratory, featuring an opening night party, public and press tours, and visits by schoolchildren. AMO designed the mise-en-scene of the modernist pavilion, by Auguste Perret, using the various spaces to stage - and interrogate - the three types of museums spaces that are predominant today.
1. Experimental/contemporary
A large pink neon cage turns the main space into a psychedelic concrete and metal nave. It hosts the majority of Vezzoli “statues” - foamboard classical figures with the faces of contemporary celebrities stuck on - and the gala dinner.
2. Classic/propagandistic
The curved concrete stair features a single centerpiece “statue” in front of three huge red curtains. For the cocktails.
3. Forgotten/storage
Inspired by inaccessible but precious museum archives, and located in a hidden part of the ground floor, this space - which AMO called the “Salon des Refusés” - is used as a small scale disco, accessible through a row of green velvet curtains.The result is an ephemeral “total museum” that hosts a sequence of rituals unfolding through the 24 hours.
Editorial Design Book Cover by Hideki Nakajima via nkjm-d.
A Study of Fragment by Marcus Rothnie via drawingarchitecture.
Eight Flew Over, One Was Destroyed by Leo Calvillo via Flickr.
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