Architectural model of design for Punta della Dogana by Tadao Ando

François Pinault plans to transform Venice’s Dogana into a museum by the next Venice Biennale, in 2009. As Le Monde’s Grégoire Allix reports, Pinault—the private collector, the owner of Christie’s auction house and Haunch of Venison gallery, and a shareholder in Le Monde—revealed the architectural model at a press conference last week in Venice. Accompanied by Venice mayor Massimo Cacciari and the Japanese architect Tadao Ando, Pinault lauded the “efficiency of the Italian administration,” which last April chose his project for the Dogana over the Guggenheim’s competing plan.

Taken from Artforum (September 25, 2007)

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