Van Gogh Museum The Building

With its new entrance building the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is ready for the future

Following in the steps of the neighbouring Rijksmuseum and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum is expanded with a new entrance building The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is one of the Netherlands’ most popular museums. The ever-growing stream of visitors requires intelligent solutions for the buildings, which were designed by Gerrit Rietveld and Kisho Kurokawa.
For the new entrance building, Kisho Kurokawa architect & associates made a sketch that consists in broad outlines of a further elaboration of the elliptical wing of the building that they had built in Amsterdam in 1999. This idea is further developed, materialized, and realized by Hans van Heeswijk Architects. What was a sombre piece of the Museumplein has now become an inviting orientation site.

Authors Maarten Kloos, Hans van Heeswijk.
Foreword by Axel Rüger.
Photos by Luuk Kramer and Ronald Tilleman
nai010 publishers
- Dutch and English edition,
- 112 pages,
- paperback
- 80 Illustrations
- Date of appearance Oktober 2015
- ISBN 978-94-6208-262-5, Dutch edition
- ISBN 978-94-6208-261-8, English edition
- 28 x 22 cm
- Design Sander Boon
- EUR 29,50