MAXXI: Museum of XXI Century Arts
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The centre at night
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Stirling Prize winning contemporary art and architecture centre
Designed to promote artistic expression, MAXXI is an exhibition space for the 21st century. Intended to promote art, workshops create a dialogue between design, fashion, cinema, art and architecture.
The geometric plan aligns itself with the two urban grids that regulate the town planning of the local area. The new interpretation of these grids create an urban cultural centre where the interior and exterior spaces are intertwined and superimposed over one another.
Situated on an L-shaped footprint the primary force of the site is the constantly intersecting walls that separate to create both indoor and outdoor spaces. Cast on-site in self-compacting concrete, with casts up to 50m long the walls create major streams and minor streams. The major streams providing the gallery spaces and the minor streams the connections and the bridges.
Data
- Begun: 2003
- Completed: 2009
- Floor area: 21,200m2
- Sector: Arts and culture
- Total cost: £128M
- Procurement: General Contractor Tender
- Address: Museum of XXI Century Arts, Via Guido Reni, Rome, 00196 , Italy
Professional Team 
- Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects
- Project architect: Zaha Hadid
- Client: Italian Ministry of Culture
- Structural engineer: Anthony Hunt Associates
- Structural engineer: OK Design Group
- M&E consultant: OK Design Group
- Lighting consultant: Equation Lighting
- Acoustic consultant: Paul Gilleron Acoustic
- Main contractor: Maxxi 2006 Consortium
- Quantity surveyor: ABT
- M&E consultant: Max Fordham