INSIDE JAPAN, THE NIPPONESE NATION BEYOND CLICHÉS
If there's one fantasy country that the Western eye tends to perceive only through clichés, it's indeed
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Moscow's Garage Museum of Contemporary Art has announced a collaboration with Japanese studio SANAAthe winner of the 2010 Pritzker Prize, to restore a dilapidated 1920s pavilion. Erected in 1923 in Moscow's Gorki Park for an exhibition, this former hunting lodge was later nicknamed the "Hexagonal Pavilion" and lived several lives (café, canteen, restaurant, discotheque), before being partially destroyed by several fires. Classified as a historic monument in 1999 thanks to the city of Moscow, a new page has now been turned for the building. The architectural duo will retain the original form of the structure, which they will fit out with three exhibition galleries, a library, a bookshop and a café covering almost 9,500 m2.
By Lisa Agostini
If there's one fantasy country that the Western eye tends to perceive only through clichés, it's indeed
