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LACMA shares custom-built glass facade details in new spring construction update

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New updates have been shared recently by the Los Angeles Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), charting progress on the $750 million new David Geffen Galleries from Peter Zumthor that is expected to finish construction by the end of this year. Image courtesy LACMA Also of interest are the 243 individual custom-made glass facade components.

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BIG's new adaptive reuse paper arts museum to unfold in northern Denmark

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A new museum dedicated to paper arts will launch in the North Jutland region of Denmark in the coming years with an adaptive reuse design from Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG).

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Morphosis raises concrete galleries around Dallas art museum

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Architecture studio Morphosis has balanced long galleries on massive beams and clad in patterned, precast concrete at the Crow Museum of Asian Art museum in Dallas, Texas. The building is part of the first phase of the O'Donnell Athenaeum, an arts campus for the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas).

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Julie Mehretu’s stained glass artwork enhances Tod Williams Billie Tsien–designed Obama Presidential Center

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Julie Mehretu, a world-renowned Ethiopian-American artist and activist, has designed a large stained glass artwork for the exterior of the Obama Presidential Center in South Side Chicago.

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VERTICAL RAINBOW in Tokyo by SAKO Architects

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Using a newly developed in-house paint for outdoor glass, we applied a gradient coating to tempered laminated glass. Direct daylight is converted into colorful light through the colored glass, creating beautiful shadows on the terrace floor and on the exterior walls of the adjacent buildings.

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Neri&Hu captures "spirit of traditional alleyways" at Shanghai arts centre

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Rows of arches and barrel vaults reference Shanghai 's historic alleyways at New Bund Performing Arts Centre, completed by local architecture studio Neri&Hu. This informed a recurring arched motif that appears throughout the New Bund Performing Arts Centre, defining a series of internal routes and balconies.

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Snøhetta wraps Queens library in orange ombre glass covered with script

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Architecture studio Snøhetta has completed the Far Rockaway Library in New York, which is wrapped in fritted, orange ombre glass covered with thin, white script by Brooklyn artist José Parlá. The post Snøhetta wraps Queens library in orange ombre glass covered with script appeared first on Dezeen.

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