New York’s Poster Home museum by LTL Architects contrasts “the country and the refined”
New York studio LTL Architects has designed minimal gray interiors that distinction white neoclassical pillars for the USA’s first main museum devoted to the historical past of posters.
The museum, known as Poster Home, is on the bottom flooring of an present 10-storey constructing close to Madison Sq. Park on the border of the New York’s Chelsea neighbourhood.
Spanning 14,500 sq. toes (1,347 sq. metres), the museum features a foyer, reward store, cafe and exhibition room and a cellar beneath with workplaces and different personal rooms.
Native studio LTL Architects designed the interiors to riff off authentic particulars from the early 20th century like uncovered brick partitions, barrel vaults and ornate cast-iron columns which might be painted white.
“The design for Poster Home seeks to mix the previous and the brand new, the country and the refined, the playful and the considerably severe right into a layered however nonetheless unified architectural expertise,” stated LTL Architects.
The studio inserted a gray envelope to surround the exhibition house and culminate in a cover on the entrance on 23rd Avenue.
The 185-foot-long (56-metre-long) insertion divides the museum’s slender flooring plan – which stretches 200 toes (61 metres) from 23rd Avenue to 24th Avenue – right into a public passage on one aspect and galleries reverse.
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“The formal galleries are nested inside the present constructing shell like a ship in a bottle, whereas the zone in between is activated by a collection of collective applications and takes benefit of the qualities of the extant structure,” the studio stated.
Unique architectural particulars characteristic within the passageway and communal areas and distinction with the gray quantity.
“The ensuing design is subsequently conceived as a negotiation between two contrasting however complementary sorts of house: a extra enclosed gallery quantity and a extra open and energetic public promenade,” LTL Architects added.
Rounding out the design are flooring coated in both concrete or wooden, timber benches and desks, and black railings.
Poster Home is the primary main museum within the US devoted to the worldwide historical past of posters. It’s presently closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, and so is as a substitute showcasing Covid-19 posters throughout the town digitally on LinkNYC Wi-Fi service panels.
Earlier than closing in March, together with most of the metropolis’s museums, Poster Home exhibited posters from the 2017 Girls’s March, hand-painted film posters from Ghana and artwork nouveau works by Czech artist Alphonse Mucha.
Future poster exhibitions embrace the 1964 Olympic Video games in Japan, Austrian designer Julius Klinger from the Vienna Secession and ones with the Worldwide Typographic Type, also referred to as Swiss Type.
There’s additionally a poster museum in Aarhus, Denmark known as the Danish Poster Museum, whose interiors had been designed by native structure agency C F Møller, in addition to the Czech Poster Museum in Prague and Poster Museum Warsaw.
Images is by Michael Moran.
Undertaking credit:
Undertaking group: Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, David J. Lewis; Anna Knoell,
Michael Schissel, Jillian Blakey, Sonia Flamberg, Jenny Hong, Eli Again
Structural engineer: Silman
Mechanical engineer: Thomas Polise Consulting Engineer PC
Lighting design: Lumen Structure
Code marketing consultant: J Callahan Consulting Inc
Graphic designer: Pentagram
Interactive designer: Conduit Tasks Incsp