Museums & Art Centers - Articles - Page 23

Clyfford Still Museum by Allied Works

Denver

January 16, 2012

A muscular concrete structure in Denver provides a calm and fluid environment for appreciating the work of a maverick 20th-century artist.

Asia Society Texas Center

A Quiet New Neighbor Moves in: Yoshio Taniguchi has returned to the U.S. for his second significant commission here—an elegantly restrained new home for the Asia Society Texas Center.

Beth Broome

November 15, 2011

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Yoshio Taniguchi has returned to the U.S. for his second significant commission here—an elegantly restrained new home for the Asia Society Texas Center.

Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture

July 16, 2011

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A four-level, 46,500-square-foot cultural center in downtown Charlotte. Situated on a narrow 50-by-400-foot tract, the project includes galleries, classrooms, offices, and event space.

Knut Hamsun Center

Beth Broome

July 16, 2011

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Steven Holl made his first sketches for the Knut Hamsun Center, in the municipality of Hamarøy, Norway, in 1994.

L&M Arts, Los Angeles

July 16, 2011

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A single-story, 3,600-square-foot art gallery with offices, two galleries, a private viewing room, a preparator's area, and a flower garden that can accommodate sculptures.

Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (MACRO)

Paul Bennett

July 16, 2011

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For the hordes of tourists stuck in lines for the Colosseum or queuing up to enter the Sistine Chapel, Rome’s 2,000-year history acts as a powerful magnet.

The Cushing Center

July 16, 2011

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A 1,700-square-foot museum devoted to pioneer neurosurgeon Dr. Harvey Cushing, located in a sub-basement of the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at the Yale School of Medicine.

The Water Museum

July 16, 2011

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A 5,490-square-foot museum devoted to water and its history in Lanjarón, a Granada spa town on the southern end of the Sierra Nevada.

Archaeology Museum of Álava

David Cohn

July 16, 2011

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Francisco “Patxi” Mangado, the 54-year-old Spanish architect, compares his bronze-clad Archaeological Museum of Álava in Vitoria, Spain, to a “coffer guarding a treasure.”