By Mohamed Amine RhazRabat – The Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakech (MYSLM) won the “Best New Public Building” design award from the British magazine Wallpaper*, tying for first place with the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art in Cape Town, South Africa. “The Moroccan heritage of Yves Saint Laurent is now complete thanks to the opening of this elegant new museum dedicated to his life and his work,” writes the Wallpaper *. The museum opened in October 2017, and is in the same neighborhood as existing commemorations of Yves Saint Laurent in Marrakech. In addition to the South African Museum, MYSLM competed against CoFuFun Station Plaza in Japan, the Australian Islamic Center, and Centro Botín in Spain. On Instagram, the Yves Saint Laurent Museum thanked the magazine and acknowledged “it is an even greater honor to be placed in such distinguished ranks next to the other nominees.”

Source: Ethiopian News January 15, 2018 18:11 UTC