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| HEWLÊR | The Kurdistan Museum | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 16 16, 3:56 (3,132 Views) | |
| ALAN | Apr 16 16, 3:56 Post #1 |
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Daniel Libeskind has unveiled plans for The Kurdistan Museum in Hewlêr, Iraq. With the building, Studio Libeskind seeks to create “the first major center in the Kurdistan Region for the history and culture of the Kurdish people.” The project was developed as a collaboration between the Kurdistan Regional Government (the KRG) and client representative RWF World. The 150,000 square-foot museum will feature exhibition spaces for both permanent and temporary exhibitions, a lecture theatre, state-of-the-art multimedia educational resources, an extensive digital archive of Kurdish historical assets, as well as community center and landscaped outdoor spaces for public use. “The museum aims to convey the spirit of the Kurdish people, their rich culture and the future of Kurdistan,” says Daniel Libeskind. “The design had to navigate between two extreme emotions: sadness and tragedy, through the weight of history, and of joy and hope, as the nation looks to the future.” Situated at the base of an ancient Citadel in the center of Hewlêr, the museum’s shape is created from four interlocking geometric volumes that represent the regions of Kurdistan: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey. A line that intersects the volumes, creating angular fragments, is meant to represent the past and future of the region and Kurdish people. “The two fragments," says Studio Libeskind, "create an emotive duality: a heavy and opaque mass, the Anfal Line, which symbolizes the genocide under Saddam Hussein; and the Liberty Line, a lattice structure filled with greenery that ascends towards the sky and culminates with an eternal flame – a powerful symbol in Kurdish culture.” A courtyard space at the juncture of the lines refers to those found in the Citadel and throughout the city of Hewlêr, and a river feature that runs through the museum is meant to evoke the waterways and fertile valleys of the Kurdish region. The KRG hopes that the museum project will be completed once the region has stabilized and the threat from fighting ISIS is minimized. As the KRG’s financial resources have been drained in this struggle, the organization is seeking outside funding to complete the project. Project Team: Studio Libeskind (US) Architect, Haley Sharpe Design (UK) Exhibition Designer, Expedition (UK) Structural Engineer, Atelier Ten (US) Mechanical and Environmental Engineer, Jackson Coles (UK) Project Managers, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (UK) Consultants for Landscape and Botany, RWF World (UK/Iraq) Development, Management and Content Production, and Tim Renwick, Project Director (London Eye, London 2012 Olympic Village) http://www.archdaily.com/785403/daniel-libeskind-unveils-design-for-the-kurdistan-museum |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| ALAN | Apr 16 16, 3:57 Post #2 |
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| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| Brendar | Apr 17 16, 9:20 Post #3 |
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By Daniel Libeskind, a Polish-American architect, artist, professor and set designer of Polish Jewish descent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djjs7Pxs0LM |
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| ALAN | Apr 18 16, 7:12 Post #4 |
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Already made a topic for it, in Under construction section. Ill combine them now.
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| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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