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Six years after Los Angeles's Johnston Marklee was selected to design the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston, Texas, the $30,000-square-foot, $40 million building has opened on the Menil Collection's 30-acre campus.
Taking into account the city’s urban tissue, the project is the renovation of a Brussels typical terraced house. Originally inhabited by a single family, the house appeared too big and difficult to take care of after the children grew up and left.
Here we are in the heart of Paris, and in the 21st Century. The people who will reside in this establishment come for the most part from the surrounding neighborhoods; they were born and have lived their lives in Paris.
Artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have taken over the Menil's Byzantine Fresco Chapel, three years after the namesake frescoes were returned to Cyprus.