Location: Rome, Italy.

Architect: Odile Decq Benoît Cornette Architects + Urban Planners.

The city-run museum of modern art, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, underwent significant extension in 2011. The museum is spread out over two different locations: a former brewery in the Salario quartiere of the city’s via Nizza, and a former slaughterhouse in the Testaccio quartiere’s Piazza Orazio Giustiniani. The project got underway in the late 1990s on the site of the former Peroni plant. The museum was officially opened on October 11, 2002, following the first phase of site reconfiguration that allowed the opening of six rooms in September 1999. Since 2003, the museum has also had an addition known as MACRO Future, which consists of two renovated apartments measuring 1000 square metres each and is housed in the Testaccio neighbourhood’s former Rome slaughterhouse. A building addition has existed since July 2004 was built in order to present all of the permanent collection. These arrangements have been entrusted to the French architect Odile Decq.