Author
Peter Zumthor
ISBN
3775707204
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Kunsthaus Bregenz
The glass panels which surround the main building are scale-like, "like slightly ruffeled feathers" (Zumthor). During the day, the new Kunsthaus Bregenz, designed by the Swiss Architect Peter Zumthor, appears as a semitransparent body of glass, at night as a cube 30 meters high, which declares light as its theme, visible from afar. The interior of the building - three stacked halls with an exhibition surface of 1800m2, heated or cooled by means of an ingenious climate-control concept - is defined by smooth concrete, terrazzo, etched glass, and an indirect lighting system, which approximates natural conditions. Located on the shoreline of Lake Constance, the main building and the administration- and service building create a high-quality urban area, even the "center of Bregenz" in a former "sort of inner-city fallow" (Friedrich Achleitner). They bear witness to Zumthor always intensive analyses of and coming terms with the specific site. The architect, after widely noticed projects and competitions won, "finally reached cult-status" (Stuttgarter Zeitung) with an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art New York.
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