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TRAVEL<br />
NEWS<br />
MAXXI Museum<br />
ROME<br />
After a decade of<br />
stops and starts,<br />
Zaha Hadid’s<br />
sinuous Centre for<br />
Contemporary Arts<br />
in Rome is fi nally<br />
set for inauguration<br />
in spring next year.<br />
Hadid won the<br />
competition for the<br />
building in 1999<br />
and construction<br />
started in 2003,<br />
but its opening<br />
has repeatedly<br />
been delayed due<br />
to government<br />
funding shortfalls.<br />
The MAXXI’s<br />
29,000m 2 site in<br />
northern Rome<br />
incorporates various<br />
existing but disused<br />
19th-century<br />
barrack buildings<br />
and contains two<br />
museums (MAXXI<br />
Art and MAXXI<br />
Architecture),<br />
an auditorium,<br />
library, bookshop,<br />
café, temporary<br />
exhibition spaces<br />
and various open<br />
spaces for live<br />
events, shops and<br />
recreation. Hadid’s<br />
project is conceived<br />
as a central threestorey<br />
atrium and a<br />
series of 15m-wide<br />
curving windowless<br />
concrete galleries<br />
with glazed roofs<br />
that intertwine at<br />
various points. The<br />
result is sure to be<br />
striking and unique.<br />
maxxi.beniculturali.it<br />
Giovanna Dunmall<br />
THE BUZZ | HOT SPOTS<br />
DECEMBER 09 | TRAVELLER | 23
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