ClevelandDesignCity

“Designed by the Japanese architects Kazuo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, whose firm is known as SANAA, the $50 million, 60,000-square-foot-building is an eight-story stack of shiny, metallic boxes set off-kilter from one another like a series of presents waiting to be unwrapped. The tower is clad in silvery mesh made of perforated aluminum, which has the effect of softening the building’s surfaces and diffusing the light that hits them.

In contrast to the grubby, graffiti-smeared buildings that surround it, which look earthbound, weathered and weighty, the museum virtually floats. It is light, ethereal and mysterious. It arouses curiosity, creates a mood of anticipation and gently invites the passerby to figure out what’s going on inside…” (go to article)