Video: Stanton Williams Explain Their Design for the Nantes Musée des Beaux-Arts

In 2009 Stanton Williams won an international competition to transform the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes, one of France's six largest Fine Art Museums outside of Paris. Their design for this, the London-based practice's first major project in France, connects a number of historic buildings through one new "monolithic extension, glazed with thin layers of Portuguese white marble and glass façade." The museum is slated to open to the public in 2016.

Model of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes. Image © Stanton Williams
Sectional model of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes. Image © Stanton Williams
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Cite: James Taylor-Foster. "Video: Stanton Williams Explain Their Design for the Nantes Musée des Beaux-Arts" 24 Jun 2015. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/769068/stanton-williams-explain-design-nantes-musee-des-beaux-arts> ISSN 0719-8884

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