It’s the art museum that almost never was.
More than 20 years after billionaire François Pinault dropped plans to build a contemporary art museum on a former Renault factory site near Paris , blaming red tape, a new contemporary art center has opened in its place with an exhibition celebrating car culture.
The 53,800-square-foot building, dubbed Le Large, is the passion project of Laurent Dumas, founder and president of the Emerige real estate group and its philanthropic arm, the Emerige Endowment Fund.
Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Catalan firm RCR Arquitectes, it seeks to position Île Seguin, an island on the Seine in the western suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt, as a cultural magnet — home to a cluster of attractions that also includes the Seine Musicale music and performing arts center , a sculpture park and a multiplex.
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