The Best Architecture of 2019

February 12, 2020

The London Times has just named Bernard Tschumi Architects’ Museum in Tianjin one of the best buildings of the year:

“In brief: Thinking big
Another wildly outside-of-the-box creation in the Middle Kingdom, this enormous museum consists of a series of giant copper-coloured cones that allude to the chimneys of the port city’s manufacturing past but which exert a titanic draw all of their own. In the largest of these, a spiralling ramp leads to viewing platform on the roof, perhaps riffing on Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum, whilst others showcase impressively huge items of contemporary technology such as space rockets.”

Other winners include the Qatar National Museum by Jean Nouvel, the renovation of TWA Terminal by Eero Saarinen and the New York Shed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

Bernard Tschumi Architects is now on Instagram!

January 20, 2020

President Xi Jinping tours the Acropolis Museum during state visit

November 12, 2019

President Xi Jinping of China visited the Acropolis Museum as part of an official visit to Athens. He was joined by Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and voiced support for the repatriation of the Parthenon Marbles, noting the importance of preserving cultural heritage and artifacts in both Greece and China. President Xi is one of many state leaders who has toured the museum since it opened in 2009.

Largest project by Tschumi and team will open in 2022

October 10, 2019

The 88,000m2 (1,000,000 sq. ft.) Center for Research and Education for Biology-Pharmacy-Chemistry in Paris-Saclay will open in 2022. Conceived by Bernard Tschumi Architects (BTuA) with Groupe-6 for the University Paris-Sud, the overall complex includes a 264-m long façade (800 ft.). The total budget is approximately 283 million euros and construction will involve over 1,000 collaborators led by Bouygues Construction.

Lisbon Architecture Triennale: The Poetics of Reason

October 03, 2019

Notations and photographic documentation of the Fireworks at the Parc de la Villette by Bernard Tschumi (1992) are included in the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, on view as part of the “What is Ornament?” section at Culturgest. For more information, visit: https://2019.trienaldelisboa.com/en/

Tschumi: A new museum in China?

August 27, 2019

On August 27, 2019, Bernard Tschumi gave a lecture at Tsinghua University in Beijing and presented an early view of his latest design for an archaeological museum in Yinxu, together with an exhibition of selected projects.

The Acropolis Museum celebrates 10-year anniversary

June 20, 2019

The Acropolis Museum’s anniversary coincides with the opening to the public of the 4,000-square meter archeological excavation of an ancient Athenian neighborhood, a major part underneath the building designed by Bernard Tschumi and his team. Celebrations include an orchestral concert by the composer Stavros Xarchakos, a photographic exhibition showing the marble craftsmen and their conservation of Greek monuments, and a lecture by Giovanni Verri on the polychromy of the Parthenon sculptures. Since its inauguration in 2009, the museum has welcomed over 14 million visitors.

Counter-tour: Bernard Tschumi’s Cut

January 31, 2019

Bernard Tschumi presents an alternative reading of the exhibition Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths, curated by Sylvia Lavin, through a counter-tour. Counter-tours propose critical, subversive, and alternative visions of an exhibition through encounters with the perspectives of special guests who are equipped with a projector to digitally add objects and a black cloth to remove existing objects from the galleries.

MuséoParc in Alésia receives First Prize

January 21, 2019

The French Ministry of Culture has just announced that the MuséoParc in Alésia, by Bernard Tschumi Architects received First Prize of the Patrimoines pour tous 2018 Award (Landmarks for all). The Prize awards cultural environments that succeed in establishing “a remarkable approach regarding accessibility for people with disabilities.”

Bernard Tschumi live in October 2018

October 09, 2018

Bernard Tschumi gives two presentations this month about his work.

Ocotber 10, 2018: Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine, (Paris)
Premiere of a new 25-minute film featuring Bernard Tschumi and Le Fresnoy, by filmmaker Alain Fleischer.

October 11, 2018: Rolex Forum, EPFL (Lausanne)
Lecture on "Tabula Rasa/Genius Loci".

Bernard Tschumi Architects wins third prize in Shenzhen urban design competition

June 29, 2018

Bernard Tschumi Architects in conjunction with HHDesign + iDEA has won third prize in the international urban design masterplan competition for a new financial district (4.9 km2 / 1.9 sq miles) in the central Xiangmihu area of Shenzhen, China. The team’s scheme proposes a composed set of towers atop a podium of landscaped gardens to create a twenty-first century skyline unique to Shenzhen.

Bernard Tschumi and his team win Paris Research Center

April 11, 2018

Bernard Tschumi urbanistes Architectes has won one of the largest university commissions in France at the Université Paris-Sud in Saclay, just south of Paris. The € 283 million ($350 million) design-build contract for a state-of-the-art education and research center will be built by a team led by Bouygues Construction and also including architects Groupe-6 and BE.

Parc de la Villette honors 35th anniversary with celebrations in Paris

April 03, 2018

The 35th anniversary of the designation of Bernard Tschumi as winner over 472 other contestants in the historic competition for the Parc de la Villette was celebrated in Paris on 24-25 March 2018. Tschumi’s 1983 victory in the second stage of the competition, which inaugurated a series of Grand Projet building projects by the French government, resulted in an “urban park for the 21st Century” that is now world-famous. Today, the Parc de la Villette welcomes over 10 million visitors annually.

Bernard Tschumi Architects named a finalist in Beijing Huairou Science City masterplan competition

March 12, 2018

Bernard Tschumi Architects has been named a finalist in the international masterplan competition for the Huairou Science City, a planned 100 km2 research campus and city situated outside of Beijing, China, just below the Great Wall. The team’s proposal combines two modes of urban configuration, the Grid and the Clusters to create a vibrant scientific community for the future.

Tschumi and his team named “winner-elect” for Paris Research Center

November 17, 2017

Bernard Tschumi Architects has been named “winner-elect” of a major competition for a nearly million sq. foot (90,000 m2) Center for Biology/Chemistry/Pharmacy for the University of Paris-Sud, in Paris - Saclay.

Student Intervention at the Tschumi Pavilion

September 25, 2017

The Tschumi Pavilion (built 1990) lives on with regular artists’ interventions taking advantage of the disorienting effect of the tilted floor and exploring issues of transparency/opacity and domesticity/urbanism.

Image: Peter de Kan/ARCH.incubator

Parc de la Villette “20th Century Landmark”

May 09, 2017

The Parc de la Villette, designed and built by Bernard Tschumi Architects, has just been designated a “ 20th Century Landmark” by French Culture Minister A. Azoulay for its architectural qualities and contributions to history and technology.

Installation for Pompeii and the Greeks by Bernard Tschumi

April 26, 2017

On April 11, 2017, Bernard Tschumi Architects opened a redesigned exhibition gallery in the large palaestra of the archaeological excavations of the Pompeii ruins in Italy. The installation for the exhibition, also designed by Bernard Tschumi Architects, celebrates the interaction between Ancient Greek and Roman art in the Pompeii region through a sequence of seven rooms, each in a different color.

Bernard Tschumi Architects shortlisted for ArcelorMittal

April 07, 2017

Bernard Tschumi Architects is one of the eight teams shortlisted by ArcelorMittal and the Fonds Kirchberg to compete in a two-phase process for ArcelorMittal’s European Headquarters in Luxembourg.

The building will become the new home of the largest steel company in the world and will accommodate offices as well as a conference center and restaurants.

President Barack Obama visits the New Acropolis Museum

November 20, 2016

President Obama was given a private tour of the Acropolis Museum on Wednesday, November 16th. One of his comments was: “I love how the architect set this up so you could look at the Parthenon as you are looking at the Friezes. It’s beautiful.” President Obama is seen here with the Museum President, Professor Dimitrios Pandermalis. Watch part of the tour here.

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