Orange County Museum of Art, USA

The Orange County Museum of Art’s new home is situated at Orange County’s major arts complex, creating a vibrant cultural destination in Costa Mesa. With flexible exhibition galleries, dedicated space for educational programming, and areas for public gatherings, OCMA’s new building will provide expanded access to the museum’s permanent collection, which comprises important works of modern and contemporary art, and to its world-class special exhibition program.

The overall design of the building addresses the need for museum space to be both flexible and functional as well as inviting and memorable. A high-performance façade of white undulating bands of glazed terracotta paneling creates a sweeping form that wraps from exterior to interior and plays off the forms and palette of neighboring works of architecture.

The main floor is dedicated to reconfigurable open-span exhibition space that can accommodate temporary and permanent collection exhibitions spanning a variety of scales and mediums. The upper level includes administrative areas. A spacious roof terrace, equivalent in size to 70 percent of the building’s footprint, serves as an extension of the galleries with open-air spaces that can be configured for installations, a sculpture garden, outdoor film screenings, or events.

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