New York architects [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] have won a competition to design the Museum of Image and Sound in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The building will include galleries, education rooms, an auditorium,
a cafe, bars and restaurant, and an outdoor cinema on the roof.

Construction is due for completion in 2011.

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Here’s some more information from the architects:
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MUSEUM OF IMAGE & SOUND
Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2011
The architecture of the Museum of Image and Sound takes Copacabana
Beach as its inspiration: its coastline, its wraparound building wall,
its mountains, and its distinctive beach promenade designed by Roberto
Burle Marx. The promenade captures the key element of the beach—a space
of the public in motion—on foot, bicycle and automobile. The building
is conceived as an extension of that boulevard, stretched vertically
into the museum.

The “Vertical Boulevard” gestures toward inclusiveness: it gently
traverses indoor and outdoor spaces and branches to make galleries,
education programs, spaces of public leisure and entertainment. The
building inherits the DNA of Burle Marx but radically reorients his
public surface upward into a thickened façade for the new museum. The
vertical circulation sequence connects the street with the building’s
entertainment programs—from the clerestory view into the Auditorium at
street level, to the elevated Terrace Bar and Cafe, the Piano Bar at
the third level, the Restaurant at the sixth, and outdoor cinema at the
roof.

The building is also conceived as an instrument to observe the city
in a new way. The panoramic view before it, overexposed to tourists in
the hotels and restaurants of Copacabana Beach while restricted for
many residents, is perhaps the central image at stake. Through framing
strategies, the skin of the MIS curates this view for the visitor
moving through the gallery sequence.

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Posted by Rose Etherington from dezeen.com