#museum
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de Young Museum
Herzog & de Meuron's copper-clad museum in Golden Gate Park — a building designed to disappear into its landscape as the metal skin slowly turns green.
MFAH Beck Building
Rafael Moneo's limestone pavilion for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston — a building of restrained surfaces and carefully measured light.
MFAH Kinder Building
Steven Holl's translucent museum of concave and convex tubes — a building that glows from within and dissolves the line between gallery and garden.
Vitra Campus
A pilgrimage site for architecture and design on the German-Swiss border, where buildings by Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, and Tadao Ando stand in conversation across a single campus.
Palais de Tokyo
A raw concrete vessel for contemporary art on the banks of the Seine, where the architecture refuses to compete with the work it holds.
Fondazione Querini Stampalia
Carlo Scarpa's 1963 renovation of a Venetian palazzo — where water is not kept out but invited in, and every joint is a meditation on how materials meet.