YEREVAN, MAY 10, ARMENPRESS: Madlen Minasian, the head of the Cafesjian Museum Foundation press office, told Armenpress the Foundation is set to launch in late May the construction of the Gerard L. Cafesjian Museum of Contemporary Art in central Yerevan. She said the construction is supposed to be over by 2007.
Madlen Minasian recalled that that the Cafesjian Museum Foundation has selected New York Architect David Hotson to design the Gerard L. Cafesjian Museum of Contemporary Art. Its location, known as the Cascade, will be fully renovated at a cost of $3-5mln, or 20% of the total $25 mln the Cafesjian Foundation has thus far allocated for the project.
During the official launch of the construction eight large-size sculptures that will be set up near the Cascade, will be presented to the audience.
David Hotson Architect, is known for the following projects: the design of the United Nations Offices for the Secretary General; the design of the new facilities for the media art organization, Eyebeam Atelier, located in West Chelsea in Manhattan; the design of the residence of architect Santiago Calatrava; and acting as Principal Architect working with designer Maya Lin for the Museum of African Art in Manhattan, New York.
Slated for construction in 2004-2006, the museum will house Mr. Cafesjian’s pre-eminent collection of glass artwork, including the definitive collection of works by renowned artists Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslava Brychtova. The permanent displays will also include a broad range of prominent 20th century pieces including both paintings and sculpture. Additionally, the museum will host a program of world-class traveling exhibitions.
The design treats the principal Museum building as an extension of the Cascade, completing an animated pathway linking Tamanyan Park to the Monument by exterior stairway and interior escalators. The Museum building will provide a public plaza, ornamental pool, sculpture courts, a cafe and an exterior cinema all accessible to passers-by as well as visitors to the Museum itself.
A prominent glass tower, housing the Cafesjian glass collection, creates a vivid emblem for the Museum on the skyline and compositionally balances the cinema screen while preserving the central visual access of the Cascade. The Museum design organizes major circulation paths to create framed vistas of important symbolic elements of the surrounding cityscape, such as the Mother Armenia Monument and Mount Ararat.
Minasian said David Hotson suggested that a third building -the Statue of Independence, be erected. In the two years of its work on the Cascade complex the Foundation has repaired 9 halls, the fountains and water removing system, has put into the action the moving stairway and installed public toilets in the area. Some 10,000 people make use of the moving stairway daily that provides a shortest travel from downtown Yerevan to northern quarters of the capital city.
Since its inception in Armenia the Foundation has invested $50 million in Armenia, including such projects as alternative energy sources, real property, television, press and banking.
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