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Peter Zumthor’s expanded Fondation Beyeler begins phased public opening

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Peter Zumthor’s expanded Fondation Beyeler begins phased public opening

The opening adds a major Peter Zumthor cultural complex to Renzo Piano’s existing museum and offers unusually strong press access, image terms and an immediate opportunity to assess architecture conceived as an ensemble of art, landscape and restored historic structures.

Location
Fondation Beyeler, Baselstrasse 101, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland
Organizations
Fondation Beyeler — Client, museum operator and project publisher; Atelier Peter Zumthor — Architect of the new Wyss Museum, Ammann Pavilion and Erlen Gatehouse; Renzo Piano Building Workshop — Architect of the existing Beyeler Museum retained within the expanded ensemble; Iwan Baan Photography B.V. — Photography
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