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News • News • 16 Jun 2022
Site Verrier de Meisenthal defines a contemporary institutional identity in dialogue with industrial heritage
Located in a historic glass factory from the 18th century, the Site Verrier de Meisenthal is a publicly funded active cultural centre containing three independent yet interrelated institution buildings. This latest intervention by FREAKS Architecture in collaboration with SO-IL unifies these programs to define a contemporary institutional identity in dialogue with industrial heritage.
Iwan Baan
The three buildings contained within the centre are Glass Museum(Musée du Verre et du cristal), the Centre International d’Art Verrier or CIAV, which is an international glass art center where traditional craftsmanship meets contemporary practices, and the Cadhame (Halle verrière), a multidisciplinary cultural space hosting... More
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Glass Museum
“Even the most complicated details are perfect.” – de Volkskrantbureau SLA turned two houses into a home for the National Glass Museum. Dutch National Glass Museum collects, examines and exhibits glass art and design from 1850 onwards. It serves as the Netherlands’ treasury, laboratory and centre of knowledge on glass. The Glass Museum was started in 1953 in the house of Petrus Marinus Cochius, director of Leerdam glass manufacturers and founder of the Leerdam glass tradition.Having two villas is charming, but provides the visitor with nothing else than to walk from one small room to another. By linking the two buildings, continuous exhibition rooms are created. The connection is more than a corridor; it is display space itself and becomes... More