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Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA designed this addition to Frank Gehry’s Visual Arts Center at the TMA in Toledo. It opened in 2006. Front Inc. contributed to the practical solution for a dynamic exterior curtain wall glass system. SANAA’s team won a Pritzker Prize.
Layers of reflective glass give a startling effect of multiple stacked spaces and voyeuristic procession. The stacked planes bend and wind to reveal more works of art. It is a futuristic scene. Yet Toledo’s glass industry has all but disappeared, along with most of America’s manufacturing industry, and so this modernist building is reminiscent of a more productive history. It is thus relevant to all of America’s depressed areas, a reminder and hope of what could return. |
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