The Pritzker Prize–winning architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron is the subject of “Material Future,” an exhibition opening tomorrow at the Vancouver Art Gallery in celebration of the firm’s soon-to-be-unveiled project: the gallery itself. The overhaul of the early-20th-century courthouse turned gallery is the latest in a string of stunning museum redesigns executed by the Swiss firm. The show takes an up-close look at Herzog & de Meuron’s prominent museum projects—from its new building for London’s Tate Modern to the completely transformed de Young in San Francisco—and finishes off with an analysis of the gallery’s structural surroundings, examining the past and future of the distinctive structure.
“Material Future: The Architecture of Herzog & de Meuron and the Vancouver Art Gallery,” March 27 through October 4 at the Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby Street, Vancouver; vanartgallery.bca
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