Floor Plan Sanaa Toledo Glass Museum

Ryue nishizawa and kazuyo sejima of sanaa.

Floor plan sanaa toledo glass museum.

Floor plan glass pavilion toledo museum of art toledo ohio 2006. 8 floor plan glass pavilion toledo museum of art toledo ohio. Photo by takashi okamoto. Bringing the surrounding park into the building not only visually but also as an experience adds to the complexity of the floor plan.

Sanaa designed the museum as a low single story pavilion with a series of courtyards open the sky so that visitors when inside the building still feel they are walking under the trees. Look at the next two floor plan images. Opened in 2006 the postmodern glass pavilion received travel leisure s 2007 design award for best museum the building was designed by kazuyo sejima and ryue nishizawa lead architects of sanaa sejima and nishizawa and associates a tokyo based firm known for designing attractive and functional museums that relate well to their sites and for using architectural glass with extraordinary. With the opening of the tma glass pavilion in 2006 toledo acquired a state of the art facility to house care for study and display its renowned glass collection.

In recognition of the toledo museum of art s role as the cradle of the studio glass movement many artists and collectors have donated works of art. Naoshima ferry terminal naoshima. N p 14 may 2010. Image 7 of 12 from gallery of glass pavilion at the toledo museum of art sanaa.

The annex to the toledo museum of art is both an exhibition space for the museum s glass collection and a glass making facility. The history of toledo ohio s fourth largest city is inextricably linked to the glass manufacturing industry to the extent that is known to many as the glass city. Sanaa s glass pavilion at the toledo museum of art buildipedia. Courtesy of sanaa architecture.

The glass pavilion at the toledo museum of.