You can tell a lot about a place by the kind of postcards offered for sale there.

The Caixa Galicia Foundation, a regional cultural center designed by Grimshaw Architects, packs a lot of design intensity into a small but prime port-side site in La Coruña, on Spain’s northwest Atlantic coast.

Grimshaw graces the Georgian landscape of this World-Heritage City with a world-class modern work of limestone and glass.