Image: A former restaurant will house the new centre

Garage Center for Contemporary Culture has announced plans to move to a new location at Gorky Park in Moscow, Russia, in the first of a two-phase development later this year.

The first stage includes the creation of a new temporary home designed by Rem Koolhaas' Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) alongside Russia-based Form Bureau.

Due to open later this year, the new space will occupy the site of the former 1960s Vremena Goda restaurant, which has been left abandoned for more than two decades.

The temporary venue will feature a double height entrance space and two floors of galleries, as well as a creative centre for children, a roof terrace and learning facilities.

In the second phase of the move, the Garage will take over an adjacent 8,500sq m (91,493sq ft) pavilion first built in the 1920s and used as a pre-war exhibition space for Soviet artists.

The new space will become one of the most important non-profit, international arts sites in the Russian capital and will revitalise the Stalin-era Gorky Park along the Moskva River.

Among the aims of The Garage is to "raise the profile of contemporary Russian culture and to encourage a new generation of Russian artists".

Details: www.garageccc.com

Image: OMA