SANAA - Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa - Glass Pavilion

Inauguration
SANAA
Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa
Glass Pavilion
Toledo Museum of Art
Toledo, Ohio

“One of the things we wanted to achieve with this project was to create an intimate relationship between the inside and the outside, giving visitors the feeling of walking under the trees...feeling the green atmosphere of the garden.”
SANAA

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The Glass Pavilion, an annex across the street from the Toledo Museum of Art, contains an extensive glass art collection, temporary exhibition galleries and glass making facilities.
Because of its location, in a park at the southernmost end of a historical Victorian-style housing district, It was necessary to consider both the preservation of the dense growth of 150-year old trees in the park and the surrounding historical neighborhood in conceiving the design.

The building, designed by SANAA, is a low, single-story glass pavilion with a series of courtyards open to the sky.

Photo: arcspace

Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa took their entire Tokyo office to see the first completed SANAA building in the US.

Photo: arcspace

More information about the building in earlier arcspace feature.

SANAA arcspace features

September 4, 2006





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		Inauguration SANAA Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa Glass Pavilion Toledo Museum of Art Toledo, Ohio “One of the things we wanted to achieve with this project was to create an intimate relationship between the inside and the outside, giving visitors the feeling of walking under the trees...feeling the green atmosphere of the garden.” SANAA Photo: arcspace The Glass Pavilion, an annex across the street from the Toledo Museum of Art, contains an extensive glass art collection, temporary exhibition galleries and glass making facilities. Because of its location, in a park at the southernmost end of a historical Victorian-style housing district, It was necessary to consider both the preservation of the dense growth of 150-year old trees in the park and the surrounding historical neighborhood in conceiving the design. The building, designed by SANAA, is a low, single-story glass pavilion with a series of courtyards open to the sky. Photo: arcspace Photo: arcspace Photo: arcspace Photo: arcspace Photo: arcspace Photo: arcspace Photo: arcspace Photo: arcspace Photo: arcspace Photo: arcspace Photo: arcspace Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa took their entire Tokyo office to see the first completed SANAA building in the US. Photo: arcspace More information about the building in earlier arcspace feature. SANAA arcspace features September 4, 2006