Venice · Dorsoduro
Punta della Dogana
The old customs house at the tip of the island, stripped back by Tadao Ando
The triangular brick shell with Ando's concrete box inserted inside it
Venice's seventeenth-century customs house sits on the triangular point where the Grand Canal meets the Giudecca, and had been derelict for decades when François Pinault took a long lease and hired Tadao Ando to convert it in 2009. Ando removed later additions, left the brick and the roof trusses visible and inserted a concrete enclosure inside.
The result is the best contemporary exhibition space in Italy, showing work from the Pinault collection at a scale the palazzi cannot offer.
The detail
Good to know
- Building
- Customs house, 17th century
- Converted
- 2009, architect Tadao Ando
- Collection
- Pinault Collection
- Combined ticket
- With Palazzo Grassi
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