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Curzon SquareA vision or Birminghams

New Museum Quarter


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Ikon propoe Curzon Square to e Birmingam new mueum

quarter. Compriing Ikon 2, a mueum o contemporary art and

temporary exiition pace, a mueum o potograpy and a

uilding or an exiting national collection, it will e te vital actor

in an equation tat reult in cultural league ucce or te city.

Like imilar project in Berlin, Au Dai, Barcelona, So Paulo and

Sangai, Curzon Square will make te city irreitile or tourim,

uine and uine tourim. It will ignicantly increae graduate

retention, wilt enancing te tandard o living or all reident.

Curzon Square will e tranormative in te ame way tat Tate

Modern a rougt a vat wate o London ack to lie.

Adjacent to te propoed HS2 rail terminal, Curzon Square will

e a cultural oai. It venue will e impreive arcitecture

in a village-like critical ma o artitic attraction. A place or

exiition, ree to te pulic, perormance, muic and dance, lmcreening and a wide variety o outdoor activitie, Curzon Square

will emody te eto evident ince te ounding o Ikon in 1964,

equating artitic excellence and innovation wit acceiility. It

will make Birmingam marter and more auent.

Jonatan Watkin

Director, Ikon

Ikon Gallery

1 Oozell Square, Brindleyplace, Birmingam b1 hs

011 48 0708 / www.ikon-gallery.co.uk

All image courtey Glenn Howell Arcitect

(image on p. courtey Birmingam City Council)

Curzon Square

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Birmingam i an oviou coice or uc an

initiative, capturing and reecting local pride,

efective in it regenerative role. By ar te econd

larget city in te UK, Birmingam i alo te

country mid-point.

Birmingam Big City Plan Development Area wit eat and wet connection

Propoed Eatide Materplan

Curzon Square i very acceile, not only to te

ix million local people living witin 30 travelling

minute, ut alo to many more viiting rom

elewere in te UK and aroad. Wit ig ootall

and cloe proximity to pulic tranport including

te propoed HS2 terminu a well a te

Bullring, Millennium Point and te new campu or

Birmingam City Univerity, it i an ideal location or

Birmingam new mueum quarter. Birmingam

urgeoning creative communitie in Diget,

centred on te Cutard Factory, Te Bond and

Minerva War (Warwick Bar), will e witin eay

walking ditance.

The Bigger PictureBirmingham expands the national cultural ofer

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Curzon SquareIkon 2: Museum o Contemporary Art

Modern Collection and Exhibitions Space

Ikon 2 will e a new art intitution or Birmingam.

It pretigiou collection o art rom te twenty-rt

century and eyond will trike a alance etween

eat and wet, nort and out, like no oter art

mueum in te world. A place or te celeration

and conideration o cultural diverity, it will e

open to art rom everywere. It unique collection

will e an expreion o te iue and actor

tat are epecially meaningul to people living in

Birmingam. A uc te collection will e te ai

or interaction, dialogue and oter orm o cultural

excange.

Te expreive reedom enjoyed y contemporary

viual art i limitle, and, in ti vein, cro-art orm

programming will e a major eature o Ikon 2. Te

artitic programme o temporary exiition will alo

eature collaoration wit oter art organiation,

Birmingam and UK-aed, and international,

repreenting muic, dance, drama, lm and opera.4 5

Propoed view along te City Park

Ikon 2 Mueum o Contemporary Art in te ite context

Ikon 2 Mueum o Contemporary Art


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Curzon SquareMuseum o Photography

Te Curzon Street railway tation uilding, wit

it impreive claical entrance acing into te

centre o Curzon Square, will ecome Birmingam

new Mueum o Potograpy, drawing rom

te extenive collection o te new Lirary o

Birmingam. A well a temporary exiition, it will

provide diplay o local itory epecially reective

o te people o Birmingam.6 7

Mueum o Potograpy in te ite context

Exiting view o Curzon Street Station uilding

Propoed ection troug Curzon Station uilding


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Curzon SquareA National Collection

It i propoed tat an exiting national collection

(or collection) e relocated to ecome part o

Birmingam new mueum quarter. Occupying new

purpoe-uilt premie, and eaturing te work o

oueold name rom te ric itory o Briti

art uc a Franci Bacon, Lucien Freud, Antony

Gormley, Ani Kapoor, David Hockney, Bridget Riley,

Tracey Emin and Damien Hirt it would perectly

complement Ikon 2.8 9Propoed view o Curzon Square

A National Collection in te ite con text


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Curzon SquareArt Outside

Curzon Square will e a ae, pleaant place or

everyone, ranging rom young people troug to

amilie, and te elderly. It will e a place or art

outide and a wide variety o perormance, a place

were game can e played, kite own, ook and

newpaper read in peace.

Te arcitecture o Curzon Square will reect te

open acceile nature o te variou intitution

connecting wit te outdoor green pace and city

context, welcoming and encouraging people to enter

and explore.10 11

Curzon Square in te ite context

Propoed view o Curzon Square


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Deliverable Vision

Te development o Curzon Square will e paed,

wit enormou enet enuing, epecially or

randing and audience development. Building or

Ikon 2, te national collection and te Mueum

o Potograpy will open in ucceion toward

completion o te wole ceme y 00.

Planning or te Curzon Square mueum quarter i

well advanced, epecially troug a eaiility tudy

upported y Birmingam City Council, Art Council

England and Advantage Wet Midland, and a new

art collection tarting to orm wit 1,000,000 or

acquiition eing made availale y te Art Fund. It

anticipate an exciting uture in wic Birmingam

realie a regeneration o it Eatide ditrict, te

implementation o it Big City Plan and te arrival o

HS2. It capitalie on an alignment o opportunitie

unparalleled in te itory o ti city ince te time

o Joep Camerlain.

We welcome any tougt or oervation toward

te realiation o te viion or Birmingam New

Mueum Quarter. Pleae contact Ikon.

www.ikon-gallery.co.uk / + 44 (0) 11 48 0708.1

Propoed Curzon Square mueum uilding

Eatide Materplan


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