Tony Fretton Architects . photos: © Helene Binet
Fuglsang Kunstmuseum is a purpose built museum for a public permanent collection of Danish fine art dating from 1780-1980. It is set in the countryside of southern Denmark in the idyllic Fuglsang estate and looks out over extensive fields to a nature reserve at the edge of the sea. Visitors see this view as they approach the Museum and again at certain points in the gallery circuit as a means of reorientation and recuperation. An entrance area provides a café, bookshop, a lecture hall and views into a studio for art classes and an apple orchard behind it. The galleries, have different scales and characters, and connected in several different ways are so that visitors can choose their route and immerse themselves in the collection. Each gallery was developed empirically bound together with the others, in a similar way to the buildings in Fuglsang itself, through slight differences and simple similarities. The building was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize in 2009.
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Project: Fuglsang Kunstmuseum
Location: Nystedvej 71, DK – 4891 Toreby L., Denmark
Client: BYGNINGSFONDEN/ The Building Foundation
DESIGN TEAM:
Architects: Tony Fretton Architects
Design team: Tony Fretton, Jim McKinney, Donald Matheson, Guy Derwent, Annika Rabi, Sandy Rendel, Matt Barton, Nina Lundvall, Simon Jones, Gus Brown.
Project Architect: Donald Matheson
Competition team: Tony Fretton, Jim McKinney, David Owen, Matt Barton, Michael Lee, Nina Lundvall, Simon Jones, Martin Nässén
CONSULTANTS:
Executive Architect: BBP Arkitekter A/S, Copenhagen.
Structural Engineer: Birch & Krogboe A/S
Services Engineer: Birch & Krogboe A/S
Project Management: BASCON A/S
Main Contractor: CC BRUN ENTERPRISE A/S
Cost Consultant: Birch & Krogboe A/S
Landscape Architect: Schønherr Landskab A/S, Copenhagen.
Furniture design: Tony Fretton Architects
