The new contemporary art gallery Pilar Corrias, located in London’s West End, will open this October with an exhibition of new work from French artist Philippe Parreno. Rem Koolhaas and the architects with OMA will create a space on two floors defined by a gallery’s major functions: a room for exhibition, and a room for private viewing, storage, and managing offices. Committed to the realization and presentation of ideas, the thirty-eight-hundred-square-foot space will be transformable for each exhibition, with plans for large-scale projects reaching beyond the physical boundaries of the gallery. The program will present a mix of exhibitions by emerging as well as established artists. Current projects in production are Don’t Cross the Bridge Before You Get to the River by Francis Alÿs and The Cephalopod Project, a collaboration with artists Parreno and Miguel Barceló. Corrias has worked as a director at two major galleries in London—Lisson Gallery and Haunch of Venison.

In other news, architects Herzog and de Meuron will design a residential tower in TriBeCa’s historic district, developed by the real estate group Alexico. The designs are expected to be revealed in the fall of 2008. Izak Senbahar and Simon Elias, principals of Alexico, also announced today that they have commissioned a monumental work of public sculpture by London-based artist Anish Kapoor, recipient of the coveted Turner Prize, to be fully integrated into Herzog and de Meuron’s architecture at ground level.

In mid-August, Tobias Berger will end his stint as executive director and curator at Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong’s edgy contemporary art institution, to take up the post of chief curator at the Nam June Paik Art Center near Seoul in September, reports Artinfo. “To become founding curator for a major museum in Asia is a chance you can get only once in your life,” he said. His first show at the new space, which opens in October, will go on view in February. The ambitious new institution, created in honor of the late Korean multimedia artist, will showcase not only works from Paik’s estate but also new works from international artists. Berger, who was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, and educated at Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany and the De Appel Curatorial Training Program in Amsterdam, says the center was “looking for a European curator working in Asia. They want European, American, and Asian contemporary art.”