On the heels of GMP’s successful exhibition of adaptive-reuse works that ran parallel to the Venice Biennale of Architecture in Italy last May, the firm debuts its first-ever U.S. show in early October at the German cultural center Goethe-Institut USA in New York City. Called UMBAU.Nonstop Transformation — the word umbau translates variously as rebuilding, renovation and conversion — the exhibit will present eight to 10 very different works that all significantly transform their existing buildings and urban settings:
- Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid, Spain (opens in 2024).
- The competition-winning scheme to convert a massive steel plant into China’s Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts (now in design).
- A demountable, modular symphony hall created next to a former transformer building in Munich (completed 2021).
- The recladding and reinvention of Beijing’s Chao Hotel as a cultural destination (completed 2018).
- The competition-winning scheme to reimagine the 1978 state library in Berlin by noted architect Hans Scharoun (now under construction).
And more.
