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...stylized, and oddly compelling work.The museum includes a gorgeous theater as well as educational rooms, but these are secondary organs to the gallery space—the real focus of the building’s mission.The galleries are floored with large, polished concrete slabs, the grid mirrored by the skylit paneled ceiling. During a tour of the galleries, one of the architects—Elizabeth Diller—said that she was trying to deal with “the architect as protagonist versus serving as background. We’ve tried to make the architecture a partner...
...building's new atrium--which occupies the space of the former Great Hall--opens up to an expansive, skylit view of the building's for floors. Here, behind glass walls, builders have preserved the two large fireplaces that graced the ends of the old Union...
...atrium, which features an open staircase running from the basement to the skylit ceiling, provides a centralized, airy meeting place for students and faculty...
...stand apart from the city's commercial bustle. The first modern museum to break the pattern was, appropriately enough, New York City's Museum of Modern Art, which in 1939 built its first new home in the heart of downtown. While the old museums featured formal, skylit rooms, MOMA presented its art on open, loftlike floors that could be partitioned or rearranged like stage sets. MOMA, now topped by Architect Cesar Pelli's 52-story, income-producing condominium tower, remains a handsomely modest structure. It was followed, however, by a veritable binge of architectural experimentation in museum...
Within the nine-story Hart Building, Warnecke has created a vast 100-ft.-high skylit atrium of the kind that Architect Kevin Roche pioneered at the Ford Foundation headquarters in New York City. This eliminates the endless, oppressive corridors of other congressional buildings and lets additional daylight into the offices, which are entered from open galleries surrounding the atrium. Unlike the Ford Foundation's atrium, which sports a lush tropical garden, the Hart Building's inner court is as yet a marble void. Plans for a huge sculpture by Alexander Calder (the last he designed before he died...