Alone In The Crowd: Surrounded by buildings that compete for attention, a home for a huge contemporary art collection strikes a quiet but assertive note amid the architectural clamor.
The first exhibition space for the Colección Jumex—the private art collection of the company behind the ubiquitous Mexican juice brand—sat in the middle of the company’s manufacturing facility on the northern outskirts of Mexico City. It was a curious location for a museum—not a converted industrial space, as with so many contemporary art venues, but a minimalist insertion into a working, and thus high-security, factory. But the Colección’s new David Chipperfield–designed building, which opened last fall, couldn’t be farther from the slum-surrounded factory setting.
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