New York’s Gluckman Mayner Architects is designing Pace Beijing, a major Chinese outpost for Manhattan’s PaceWildenstein gallery. It is the first major American gallery to put down roots in Beijing—a move intended to help PaceWildenstein become a prominent player in Asia’s booming art market.
The 22,000-square-foot facility will take up residence in a former munitions factory located in Beijing’s Factory 798 art district, which is already popular with local galleries. The concrete-and-brick building features a roof with a sawtooth profile and repeating clerestories that pull in natural light. “It’s a phenomenal structure, designed and built by East German engineers in the ’50s,” says Richard Gluckman, FAIA. “It anticipates the Kimbell [Art Museum by Louis Kahn] in a really elegant way.”
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