Lausanne, Switzerland (24 Heures, Fre) – Lausanne’s much-debated new fine arts museum took a major step closer to happening with the unveiling of its design by city authorities.
Architects Berrel Wülser Kräutler of Zurich’s Ying Yang project for the cantonal Musée des beaux-arts shows a luminous building with several panoramic views over the lake and French Alps from the Bellerives lakefront location.
The museum has several political hurdles to jump before final approval and construction, starting with a series of public debates in coming weeks.
- New museum project description
- Background: museum director hired, 2007
Posted by Ellen Wallace on 30 January 2008 at 9:31 | permalink
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News story, GenevaLunch, 30 January 2008.
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October 1st, 2009 at 1:36 pm
[...] Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Lausanne will have a new Beaux Arts (fine arts) museum, to be housed in the CFF engine house, next to the main train station. The building itself has nearly 9,000m2 of space and sits on a plot that is some 24,000m2. The museum is expected to open in 2014. The site was selected from 11 under consideration after voters in 2007 derailed a sleek modern lakefront project. [...]