Seattle Art Museum old and new, Allied Works

" The Seattle Art Museum is in the process of dramatic transformation. It is a critically important reservoir of thought and expression for the city. The expansion will establish a new presence in the collective memory of the city... The design responds to the creative energy of Seattle and the dramatic landscape of Puget Sound. Through a phased expansion, it will grow vertically within the building volume over the period of 20 years.

This unprecedented arrangement has inspired a design solution that acknowledges and celebrates this verticality and dynamism, both in the ordering of interior space and in the articualtion of the building envelope.

In this way the museum remains open to change, influence and possiblility. Rather than an exclusive and internalized object, the building will be an open and active matrix of light, life, and art...and creating a beautiful and rich experience with the art and the city."

Expansion

Brad Cloepfil - Allied Works Architecture

Seattle Art Museum

Seattle, Washington

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White Noise, Allied Works

White Noise

"Our project addresses the issue of betweenness by engaging spatial and material boundaries. As the viewer moves around the screen, from oblique to perpendicular, from close to far, the boundaries of the screen are pushed. Meaning is found between heaviness and lightness, solid and void, material and immaterial."

Brad Cloepfil - Allied Works Architecture

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Modern Meets Tradition, Brad Cloepfil

Modern Meets Tradition
The design conveys a dialogue between historical and contemporary architecture. It balances materiality with transparency, creating an interplay of stone, glass, and vertical steel cladding.

“We designed the extension to be as transparent as possible.”

Brad Cloepfil - Allied Works Architecture
Expansion Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

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the architecture, Brad Cloepfil

"The language of my architecture will be more elemental and experience-based. There will be a dialogue between the art spaces, a dialogue between the art and a dialogue between the architecture."Brad Cloepfil - Allied Works Architecture

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