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Ennead wins competition to design a new art museum and sculpture garden in Wuxi, China

By Josh Niland|

Tuesday, Nov 1, 2022

Rendering of the new Wuxi Art Museum. Image courtesy of Ennead Architects, rendering by Brick Visual.

Ennead has been announced as the winner of an international competition for a new art museum in the historic port city of Wuxi in eastern China.

Drawing on the central metaphor of a Taihu Scholar Stone, the museum’s site and massing evoke a “contemplative and intricate spatial structure that invites one’s spirit in” through a layered system of curated gardens provided by West 8 and set within the city’s Shangxianhe Wetland Park.

Image courtesy of Ennead Architects, rendering by Brick Visual.
Image courtesy of Ennead Architects.

“Our vision for the Wuxi Art Museum is to set it in a larger overall composition, highlighting views in and out of the museum through subtractive carves and recesses while emulating the natural erosion of spirit stones,” Thomas J. Wong, a Partner at Ennead, said in a press announcement. “The garden metaphor inspires not only a formal proposition but an experiential one, providing an evolving journey of art and nature through a carefully composed choreography that reveals something new with each step.”

Image courtesy of Ennead Architects, rendering by Brick Visual.
Image courtesy of Ennead Architects, rendering by Brick Visual.

West 8 Creative Director Daniel Vasiini shared: “The architecture and the landscape share a language that extends the experience of the museum from the inside-out.” A series of carved voids and solids serves to populate the program’s linear arrangement with outdoor terraces, a central courtyard, an amphitheater, a water feature, and other flexible spaces useful for art installations, film screenings, and public performances spatially inspired by the regional tradition of water management and canals.

Image courtesy of Ennead Architects, rendering by Brick Visual.
Image courtesy of Ennead Architects, rendering by Brick Visual.

The interior is described vaguely as a “varied sequence of infinite possibilities” and is enhanced by a perforated limestone facade and glass curtain wall meant to flood the gallery spaces with natural light while simultaneously providing views of the landscape and exterior art park.

Image courtesy of West 8.
Image courtesy of Ennead Architects.

“The new art museum will serve as a symbol of Wuxi's past, present and future, so it was important to us that its design emerge from the cultural history of the garden city and artfully synthesize art, landscape, and the museum experience into an inextricable whole,” Ennead Associate Principal Brian H. Masuda said finally. “The eroded massing and open ground plane allow the outdoor exhibition gardens and plazas to flow through and around the building, clearly communicating the museum’s aspiration to be a welcoming and accessible civic space in Wuxi that strengthens community through the appreciation of artistic creation.”

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  • CC Chiang ·  Nov 01, 22 6:02 PM

    This is the second project in as many weeks that purport to use the "Taihu Scholar Stone" as an inspiration.

  • Eamez
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    Eamez ·  Nov 01, 22 6:33 PM

    If you are going to steal, steal from the best (Holl)

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    The_Crow ·  Nov 02, 22 1:07 PM

    Knock off, Steven Holl. 

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Ennead wins competition to design a new art museum and sculpture garden in Wuxi, China

By Josh Niland|

Tuesday, Nov 1, 2022

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Rendering of the new Wuxi Art Museum. Image courtesy of Ennead Architects, rendering by Brick Visual.

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ennead ● wuxi ● gardens ● art museum ● china ● west 8 ● asia ● museum ● competition ● landscape
Ennead Architects
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West 8 urban design & landscape architecture
West 8 urban design & landscape architecture

Ennead has been announced as the winner of an international competition for a new art museum in the historic port city of Wuxi in eastern China.

Drawing on the central metaphor of a Taihu Scholar Stone, the museum’s site and massing evoke a “contemplative and intricate spatial structure that invites one’s spirit in” through a layered system of curated gardens provided by West 8 and set within the city’s Shangxianhe Wetland Park.

Image courtesy of Ennead Architects, rendering by Brick Visual.
Image courtesy of Ennead Architects.

“Our vision for the Wuxi Art Museum is to set it in a larger overall composition, highlighting views in and out of the museum through subtractive carves and recesses while emulating the natural erosion of spirit stones,” Thomas J. Wong, a Partner at Ennead, said in a press announcement. “The garden metaphor inspires not only a formal proposition but an experiential one, providing an evolving journey of art and nature through a carefully composed choreography that reveals something new with each step.”

Image courtesy of Ennead Architects, rendering by Brick Visual.
Image courtesy of Ennead Architects, rendering by Brick Visual.

West 8 Creative Director Daniel Vasiini shared: “The architecture and the landscape share a language that extends the experience of the museum from the inside-out.” A series of carved voids and solids serves to populate the program’s linear arrangement with outdoor terraces, a central courtyard, an amphitheater, a water feature, and other flexible spaces useful for art installations, film screenings, and public performances spatially inspired by the regional tradition of water management and canals.

Image courtesy of Ennead Architects, rendering by Brick Visual.
Image courtesy of Ennead Architects, rendering by Brick Visual.

The interior is described vaguely as a “varied sequence of infinite possibilities” and is enhanced by a perforated limestone facade and glass curtain wall meant to flood the gallery spaces with natural light while simultaneously providing views of the landscape and exterior art park.

Image courtesy of West 8.
Image courtesy of Ennead Architects.

“The new art museum will serve as a symbol of Wuxi's past, present and future, so it was important to us that its design emerge from the cultural history of the garden city and artfully synthesize art, landscape, and the museum experience into an inextricable whole,” Ennead Associate Principal Brian H. Masuda said finally. “The eroded massing and open ground plane allow the outdoor exhibition gardens and plazas to flow through and around the building, clearly communicating the museum’s aspiration to be a welcoming and accessible civic space in Wuxi that strengthens community through the appreciation of artistic creation.”

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  • CC Chiang ·  Nov 01, 22 6:02 PM

    This is the second project in as many weeks that purport to use the "Taihu Scholar Stone" as an inspiration.

  • Eamez

    Eamez ·  Nov 01, 22 6:33 PM

    If you are going to steal, steal from the best (Holl)

  • The_Crow

    The_Crow ·  Nov 02, 22 1:07 PM

    Knock off, Steven Holl. 

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