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Mathew & Ghosh Architects encloses Bangalore art museum in stainless steel “water tank”

“Local studio Mathew & Ghosh Architects has completed the Museum of Art & Photography in Bangalore, India.

Set to open later this month, the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP) has a distinctive facade that encloses pared-back internal spaces.

“The architectural necessity for MAP to be an unmissable part of the city for the visitor and the dweller alike was a critical factor,” said Mathew & Ghosh Architects co-founder Soumitro Ghosh. “It had to be iconic, for ease of cognition.”

“The responsibility of architectural design of a museum in its internal enclosure is however to give complete foreground to art in all possible, within and around the building,” he told Dezeen.”

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