Museum of Tomorrow by Santiago Calatrava

The impressive Museum of Tomorrow by Santiago Calatrava, opens in Rio de Janeiro.

The Museu do Amanhã (the Museum of Tomorrow), by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, featuring a skeletal roof that projects over a public plaza, has opened in Rio de Janeiro.

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The museum holds 5,000 square metres (53,819 square feet) of exhibition space surrounded by a 7,600-square-metre (81,805 square feet) plaza on Guanabara Bay.

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The architect Santiago Calatrava, said:

“The city of Rio de Janeiro is setting an example to the world of how to recover quality urban spaces through drastic intervention and the creation of cultural facilities such as the Museum of Tomorrow and the new Museum of Art.

The plaza creates a more cohesive urban space and reflects the neighbourhood’s greater transformation.”

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via archdaily