Comments on: The New Acropolis Museum http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2007/10/28/the_new_acropolis_museum/ Reflections on art and architecture by TIME critic Richard Lacayo. Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:49:09 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: The Elgin Stalemate - Looking Around – TIME.com http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2007/10/28/the_new_acropolis_museum/comment-page-1/#comment-485 The Elgin Stalemate - Looking Around – TIME.com Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:09:52 +0000 http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2007/10/28/the_new_acropolis_museum/#comment-485 [...] the museum was largely complete and the works of art were just beginning to come in, I went over to take an early look and to talk with Dimitrios Pandermalis, president of what was then called the New Acropolis Museum [...] [...] the museum was largely complete and the works of art were just beginning to come in, I went over to take an early look and to talk with Dimitrios Pandermalis, president of what was then called the New Acropolis Museum [...]

]]> By: Jessica Irwin http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2007/10/28/the_new_acropolis_museum/comment-page-1/#comment-157 Jessica Irwin Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:26:56 +0000 http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2007/10/28/the_new_acropolis_museum/#comment-157 I was in Athens during the summer of 2006, and I spent an entire Spring 2007 semester studying that rock. I'm not even Greek, and I can't begin to explain how fascinating the top floor of the new museum is is, specifically with its parallels to both the original plan of the Parthenon, and the literal, physical parallel the large rectangle forms in relation to the building itself. And the rest of the building... Jeffrey Hurwit writes an article about "The Goddess and the Rock." Put it on your reading list. I was in Athens during the summer of 2006, and I spent an entire Spring 2007 semester studying that rock. I'm not even Greek, and I can't begin to explain how fascinating the top floor of the new museum is is, specifically with its parallels to both the original plan of the Parthenon, and the literal, physical parallel the large rectangle forms in relation to the building itself. And the rest of the building...

Jeffrey Hurwit writes an article about "The Goddess and the Rock." Put it on your reading list.

]]> By: Alex dalton http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2007/10/28/the_new_acropolis_museum/comment-page-1/#comment-156 Alex dalton Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:57:48 +0000 http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2007/10/28/the_new_acropolis_museum/#comment-156 wow this looks amazing. What a totally fabulous home for some of Greece's treasure. However shame on the English for having put a relativly poor country through all this in order to get the stolen marbles returned. Please stop calling them 'Elgin's' marbles they belong to Greece and in a way to the world. So GIVE THEM BACK!!!!!!!!!!1 wow this looks amazing. What a totally fabulous home for some of Greece's treasure. However shame on the English for having put a relativly poor country through all this in order to get the stolen marbles returned. Please stop calling them 'Elgin's' marbles they belong to Greece and in a way to the world. So GIVE THEM BACK!!!!!!!!!!1

]]> By: Kostas http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2007/10/28/the_new_acropolis_museum/comment-page-1/#comment-155 Kostas Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:20:37 +0000 http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2007/10/28/the_new_acropolis_museum/#comment-155 New Acropolis museum is tha landmark of the landmark.Will house the classical collectin of the world heritage,it is a place deserves respects not only as the case of these ancient treasures but as the 21th century with the golden age of the Athenian democracy,a civilazation that gives the examples of the new modern world.The returning of the marbels from British museum will put an end to a sad story,when the antiquites of the monumentswas moved with a barbaric way to London.They are not just scultures,they are pieces of the monuments,there are articrafts of a place of a region,created for a specific light for a specific position.New acropolis museum is their best base ,Attica sun light and view-connections with their home,the Parthenon and the Acropolis monuments,lets put an end to the egoism of the British museum !!!!!The marbels needs imediatelly an act of prevent their last century depressing,New Acropolis museum and they born place sun light will save them for ever!!!! New Acropolis museum is tha landmark of the landmark.Will house the classical collectin of the world heritage,it is a place deserves respects not only as the case of these ancient treasures but as the 21th century with the golden age of the Athenian democracy,a civilazation that gives the examples of the new modern world.The returning of the marbels from British museum will put an end to a sad story,when the antiquites of the monumentswas moved with a barbaric way to London.They are not just scultures,they are pieces of the monuments,there are articrafts of a place of a region,created for a specific light for a specific position.New acropolis museum is their best base ,Attica sun light and view-connections with their home,the Parthenon and the Acropolis monuments,lets put an end to the egoism of the British museum !!!!!The marbels needs imediatelly an act of prevent their last century depressing,New Acropolis museum and they born place sun light will save them for ever!!!!

]]> By: Gregory Herman http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2007/10/28/the_new_acropolis_museum/comment-page-1/#comment-154 Gregory Herman Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:25:03 +0000 http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2007/10/28/the_new_acropolis_museum/#comment-154 As an architecture student in at Pratt, sometimes I find myself not being exposed as much to Tschumi's work. This structure though greatly captures the essence of the parthenon, or what is left of it, by carving out space within the new structure to in a sense bring into sharp relief the beauty of the ruins. Secondly, the Roof topography of the main hall (the fifth picture down from the top) both brings together the modern design of Tschumi with the basic fundamental element of the Parthenon, the great hall, in a great way. The great hall of the earlier parthenon was deviod of light on the interior, for the roof was solid, and the columns that lined the outer most corners and sides of the structure almost forbid light to enter the structure. Schumi illuminates the great hall by using a very simple tectonic on the ceiling, the tectonic being simple square shaped voids that are encased in shaded glass, which allows light, but does not blind the visitors. Lastly, the picture proceding the view of the great hall shows how Tschumi uses the nature of the concrete wall construction as an aesthetic device. By keeping the small round holes in the concrete, Tschumi is reminding us of Kahn's work at Salk, and secondly, in using the construction techniques of concrete as an aesthetic, Tschumi is bridging the gap between the old parthenon and new parthenon museum for the Greeks used the massive and sublime nature of the column as an aesthetic tool to declare their supremacy and importance to the world around them. I do agree wtih Eugene Pagano, for this work should be more widely known, but also design and art should be more widely seen by Time. Enough with the nonsense of politics. As an architecture student in at Pratt, sometimes I find myself not being exposed as much to Tschumi's work. This structure though greatly captures the essence of the parthenon, or what is left of it, by carving out space within the new structure to in a sense bring into sharp relief the beauty of the ruins. Secondly, the Roof topography of the main hall (the fifth picture down from the top) both brings together the modern design of Tschumi with the basic fundamental element of the Parthenon, the great hall, in a great way. The great hall of the earlier parthenon was deviod of light on the interior, for the roof was solid, and the columns that lined the outer most corners and sides of the structure almost forbid light to enter the structure. Schumi illuminates the great hall by using a very simple tectonic on the ceiling, the tectonic being simple square shaped voids that are encased in shaded glass, which allows light, but does not blind the visitors. Lastly, the picture proceding the view of the great hall shows how Tschumi uses the nature of the concrete wall construction as an aesthetic device. By keeping the small round holes in the concrete, Tschumi is reminding us of Kahn's work at Salk, and secondly, in using the construction techniques of concrete as an aesthetic, Tschumi is bridging the gap between the old parthenon and new parthenon museum for the Greeks used the massive and sublime nature of the column as an aesthetic tool to declare their supremacy and importance to the world around them. I do agree wtih Eugene Pagano, for this work should be more widely known, but also design and art should be more widely seen by Time. Enough with the nonsense of politics.

]]> By: roman heczko http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2007/10/28/the_new_acropolis_museum/comment-page-1/#comment-153 roman heczko Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:54:20 +0000 http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2007/10/28/the_new_acropolis_museum/#comment-153 it looks like an airport terminal...the building is out of the context with the site and out of the context towards respecting history...bad architect!!! it looks like an airport terminal...the building is out of the context with the site and out of the context towards respecting history...bad architect!!!

]]> By: Eugene Pagano http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2007/10/28/the_new_acropolis_museum/comment-page-1/#comment-152 Eugene Pagano Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:59:01 +0000 http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2007/10/28/the_new_acropolis_museum/#comment-152 This article should not be left on a blog but published in the next issue of the magazine, just as the Ne York Times previewed the building on the front page of the arts section of last Sunday's newspaper (article available online at <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/arts/design/28ouro.html)." rel="nofollow"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/arts/design/28ouro.html)." rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/arts/design/28ouro.html).</a></a> It apparently is a stunning building and, even if the Elgin Marbles are never returned, will house an outstanding art collection. This article should not be left on a blog but published in the next issue of the magazine, just as the Ne York Times previewed the building on the front page of the arts section of last Sunday's newspaper (article available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/arts/design/28ouro.html). It apparently is a stunning building and, even if the Elgin Marbles are never returned, will house an outstanding art collection.

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