The proposal for the New Taipei Museum of Art, by Meter architects, is predicated on exploring and celebrating the interrelationship between commerce and the display of art. This approach involved distributing the museum and commercial programs so as to heighten the drama of the encounter between them. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Museum galleries and shops share many of the same lighting and display strategies. Retailers consciously employ atmospheric ques designed to imbue their products with the same cultural authority that one associates with museum artifacts. Without flattening the difference between them, our proposal is designed to emphasize the commonalities between art and commerce by foregrounding what they have in common.
