In this context it has been completed and inaugurated by the architects office in Beijing, MAD Architects, the Museum of Art and the City, Ordos Museum, covered with a facade of polished metal, bronze color.
MAD is a Beijing studio formed by three architects: Yansong Ma, Yosuke Hayano and Qun Dand, who claims to have been inspired by the draft "Dome over Manhattan" proposed in 1960 by Buckminister Fuller.
Then, a portion of report text by the authors and a video.
"Located in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, the Art and City Museum is a crossroads for a community working to interpret its local traditions in a new urban context.
Commissioned by the Municipal Government of Ordos in 2005 after the urban master plan for a new metropolis on the plains was drawn, but not yet constructed, MAD envisioned a futuristic dome to protect the cultural history of the region and refute the reality of the rational new city outside.
The completion of the museum offers a moment of pause in a city which has seen no end to construction. In this vital space where the past and the contemporary are joined, people can meet with art and with each other, giving new spirit to this young community."
MAD Architects.