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Architectural Designed, Images from UNStudio MOMEMA is situated on Art Island part of Culture Village, on the banks of Khor Dubai (Dubai Creek) the museum has a striking design by world renowned architects, UNStudio, which brings together elements of the sea and Dubai’s tradition of seafaring. Here is from Ben van Berkel about the Museum of Middle Eastern Modern Art ‘In MOMEMA Dubai we recognize the opportunity to create an entirely new type of museum, which consists of a vibrant urban centre, where professionals, collectors and public meet each other. In this way, MOMEMA will be a community-building institution within the city, and offer to both visitors and residents a continuously changing palette of experiences and events.’ ‘The building is positioned to take full advantage of the prominent location in the Culture Village. With its Dhow-like prow rising up, the building offers panoramic views to the surroundings, and vice versa.’ ‘Inside, the design of this new museum stimulates contemplation, but by other means than enforcing a restricted optical field. There are no abrupt transitions. The space (the time) you have left behind is undividedly part of the space you are in now, is part of your ecological field, is still perceptible, still surrounding you; the art contained in those spaces follows this principle. Formats, mediums, and times can be effortlessly arranged together and rearranged. There are never too many people; this museum thrives on audiences, vernissages, and spectacle. In the MOMEMA, public, event, art and business meet each other and feed on each other.’

Credits: UNStudio: Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos, Gerard Loozekoot with Lars Nixdorff, Wouter de Jonge and Ramon van der Heijden, Daniela Hake, Shany Barath, Ioana Suela, Hendrik Biesenbach, Wouter Hilhorst, Tom Minderhoud, Patrik Noome, Jordi Calvera, Mark Hopperman, Leon Bloemendaal (Graphic design) Key Dates: Expected completion: January 2011 Surface location: 25,000 m² Program: Retail, Exhibition Hall, Art galleries & Museum