“One of the best things about Zaha Hadid it´s the flowing aspect of all her works…they are really awesome for museums …
but in other programs you always feel like there is no place to rest, to relax…to stay for a while. You always feel that you have to keep on moving, because everything around you flows. it might be very stressing to dwell such places (…) But this is a museum so … its fine…”

IS IT???
Compared to any other buildingtype, ESPECIALLY the museum is a place where i want ‘places to rest’, ‘to stay a while’, and NOT have the feeling that I have to ‘keep on moving’ !
How can you stand still for a moment in this building, (as long as you like) and look at art, think about art, look at it again, sit down in front of it…

I know why they shot these photo’s in an empty museum with just some dynamic figures inside; can you imagine paintings hanging on the wall?
I can’t.

So I must again come to the conclusion that this is another great dynamic Hadid building, indeed like one of her impressing paintings have come to life, but that it would only fit a collection of Italian sports cars. Even a Zaha Hadid painting would be to static to hang on these walls.

Compare this to the Nottingham Contemporary museum (Caruso St. John Architects): a lot less WOW-effect, but it actually suits the SITE and the PROGRAM.