a vast swath of Wetland Park and the gallery completes the journey with the.
Isozaki deliberately designed the building to face inward towards the California Plaza development. The MOCA Yinchuan museum will be the first project developed within this new. It is surrounded by solid structures like the Shanghai. At its opening, critics derided the building's windowless, blank wall along the Grand Street sidewalk, but Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) is situated at Peoples Park on Nanjing Road in Shanghai. East Asian traditions were referenced with the play between positive and negative (building and courtyard) space. Isozaki chose forms and shapes for the building that were vaguely traditional, but mostly abstract. Only four of its seven levels are above the street level.Īdministrative offices are located at the level of Upper Grand Street under a barrel-shaped roof. Under and around the courtyard are the public galleries.
The entrance is marked by an arch leading to a subterranean terraced courtyard. Japanese architect Arata Isozaki created a contrast to the extreme heights of the Bunker Hill glass-and-steel high rise towers by designing MOCA as a sunken, red sandstone-clad space. In addition to private donations, funds for MOCA came from a 1.5 % allocation of budgets from Bunker Hill development projects required to go towards public art. The List: Our Ten Favorite Shanghai Galleries & Museums. When the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) opened its permanent quarters at California Plaza in 1987, Bunker Hill was a multi-level landscape of sprouting skyscrapers. The best part of the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai (MOCA) is the.