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Frank Gehry designed the Center for Visual Arts at the Toledo TMA in 1992, more recently updated by SANAA architects. It contains the museum’s administration and office space, as well as studio and classroom locations for visitors and students.
The city’s history of glass-making figures prominently in the building’s form, with glass planes balancing out the heavy lead-copper surfaces. This dichotomy of light and heavy helps establish programs of space and circulation paths. The glass pavilion is almost entirely glass while the older museum, with its classical reminicent design, is almost entirely heavy masonry. Gehry’s dynamic disestablishment of blocks and forms balances out this site. |
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