Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Odile Decq, ODBC Architects, Paris
Parisian architect and urbanist Odile Decq contends that black, not white, is the “truly neutral” color for a museum. At the Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Roma (MACRO), where she inserted the new program into an early-20th century Peroni beer factory, dark surfaces shroud the red polygon that houses the museum’s auditorium. Elsewhere, Decq embraces white. Her red-and-white “Phantom” restaurant weaves throughout the porte cochere of the historic Palais Garnier in Paris. Without touching the opera house’s protected surfaces, the restaurant floats on a steel skeleton covered with white plaster in homage to its famous specter. #wood040912
