Museums

Decq designed the FRAC Bretagne Museum, a reflective glass structure that houses contemporary art, in Rennes, France.

The MACRO Contemporary Art Museum in Rome features subterranean exhibition spaces illuminated by skylights.

At the opposite end of the "public spine" is the café, rendered here looking north from within (or near) the cantilever over the entrance.

The museum's office and meeting room are housed in the glass penthouse.

Architecture: Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OhioDesigned by Farshid Moussavi Architects, this museum’s liquid-like surface reflects the city back onto itself.

Exterior benches made of local stone establish a relationship between the building and the surrounding landscape, as does the Dark Ironspot Velour Modular Brick from Endicott Clay used on the facade. The design team, led by Deborah Berke, achieved an open, inviting feel through skylights, light monitors, large windows and an interior courtyard.

Another design takes a more amorphous profile.

Many designs, like this one, seem to float on the water.

One of Arquitectonica's civic projects is the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Photo by Norman McGrath.

The Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany, designed by Frank Gehry, 1989.