Kinder Building at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

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Presenting undulating facades and roofs, the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building adds gallery space for the collection of one of the largest museum institutions in the United States. The building consolidates the campus formed by the original edifice, the extensions of Mies van der Rohe and Moneo, and the sculpture garden of Noguchi, to all of which it connects by means of a porous ground floor. An enclosure of translucent glass forms a ventilated facade that prevents overheating of the interiors, while the curved roofs serve as screens ensuring a homogeneous allocation of natural light.

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• Arquitectura Viva