Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

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Museum Folkwang
Designer David Chipperfield Architects, London, England, United Kingdom
Location Essen, Germany
Date 2007 to 2010
Building Type Museum
Climate Cold Temperate
Context Urban
Architectural Style Modern
Builder Pühl und Becker Ingenieurberatung VBI; Seroneit und Schneider GmbH
Street Address Goethestrasse Walk Score
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Client Neubau Museum Folkwang Essen GmbH on behalf of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung
Area 24,800 square meters
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"Folkwang Museum is a breathtakingly accomplished design. Located in Essen, in the far from rural Ruhr, it extends a beautiful late-1950s Miesian museum, developing the principles established by the existing structure, much as a jazz musician might riff on the tune of a classic song. The result is a genuinely uplifting, light-filled public space, offering a serene and yet mesmeric mixture of inward-looking courtyards and external views out.

Its external cladding is of large panels of crushed recycled glass, giving a shimmering translucent finish. Inside, carefully detailed top-lighting systems in the galleries blend natural and artificial light. In the large, flexible temporary exhibition space, they have co-ordinated the lighting grid with a bespoke partitioning system than can easily be assembled and remounted to meet the requirements for each show." -- RIBA

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  • Architect: David Chipperiield Architects
  • Structural Engineer: Ingenieurberatu ng Puehl and Becker VBI Seroneit and Schneider GmbH; Giesen-Gi|Ihoff-Loomans GbR, BBT Engineers
  • Services Engineer: Arup
  • Lighting Engineer: KonTec Fassadenberatung, Pazdera AG
  • Facade Consultant: Planungsbuero Meinholf Hesse
  • Landscape Architect Photography: Christian Richters


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