Italy's newest art gallery, Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo (MAXXI) in Rome, is set for a 2009 launch.

Zaha Hadid Architects have designed the museum to be reminiscent of an ‘urban campus’, a building that goes beyond interior spaces to include the entire city.

The project includes two museums – MAXXI art and MAXXI architecture – which will revolve around a full-height grand hall that connects with a reception area, cafeteria, bookshop, educational spaces, auditorium, live events halls, temporary exhibition galleries and galleries containing permanent graphics and photography collections.

The design features complex shapes and overlapping dimensions. achieve a complex spatial and functional structure.