St. Louis (USA) - British architect David Chipperfield today presented his project for the expansion of the art museum in Central America's St. Louis. According to his proposal, nearly 8,000 square meters of exhibition space will be added to the existing building from 1904 over the next four years. The construction is planned to cost $125 million (approximately 2.5 billion crowns), writes the AP agency. After the completion of the gallery in 2011, visitors will see at least another thirty thousand exhibits in the expanded spaces, which currently have no room in the exhibition halls. Fifty-four-year-old Londoner Chipperfield received the prestigious Stirling Prize awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in October. The jury awarded another one of his "museum" proposals this year - the project for a modern literature museum in Marbach, Germany. He had previously worked on museum projects - for example, he is the author of the new entrance building to the Berlin Museum Island (Museumsinsel) or the modern art museum in Bolzano, Italy.
El Croquis 87+120: David Chipperfield 1991-2006 picture