Great Inaugurate MAXXI, Rome by Zaha Hadid

For a long time did not generate such a building consensus among architects, critics and the general public. The MAXII (Museo Nazionale delle Arti XXI Secolo) likes everyone (who have visited). The New York Times critic, Nicolai Ouroussoff, Summed it up well: “A Bernini would have liked.” And personally I would add that to Giovanni Battista Piranesi, too. As a person who told me he could go, while the interior is felt within a drawing of the architect / Italian engraver, and judging by the photos, you must be right.

I knocked him out a couple of months and the first thing you notice is the quality of the concrete and your bill. No wonder the 27,000 total square feet the building has cost 150 million euros, but the really interesting happens inside. An interior that despite having 11 years (the project is from 1998) is surprising, and which is now completely empty, because the 350 works of art (all of this century) will arrive next spring.

As stated by Zaha Hadid, the architect behind the project, “The Maxxi is a place designed to encourage the exchange of ideas to expand the city’s cultural vitality. I hope that the dense network of internal and external space is used well to dialogue with each other in an intriguing intersection of tunnels. Do not lose sight of. ”

“It was hard and quite long, but I always thought he was going to end well.” Such were the words of the architect during the opening in Rome. Is that in these 11 years have been six governments that have passed after the Ministry of Culture Walter Veltroni gave the green light to the project.

No doubt, a building that needs to be run to understand it in all its dimensions. And a strong candidate to win the next prize Mies van der Rohe.