Glenstone Museum of Art near Washington DC

Issue
06/2019 Brickwork and Stone
Author
Heide Wessely
Task
New construction
Location
United States of America, Potomac, Maryland
Architecture
Thomas Phifer and Partners
Glenstone offers art not only within the museum. In the roughly 1.2 km2 park, works by artists such as Jeff Koons and Richard Serra are to be discovered, for example.
© Iwan Baan courtesy of Glenstone Museum
The individual forms of this extension to the Glenstone private museum are distinguished by long concrete building blocks in slightly varying shades of grey. Because the structures have the appearance of individual volumes in the landscape, they were given the name "The Pavilions" and complement a smaller original development dating from 2006. This is situated at some distance on the...
Glenstone offers art not only within the museum. In the roughly 1.2 km2 park, works by artists such as Jeff Koons and Richard Serra are to be discovered, for example.
© Iwan Baan courtesy of Glenstone Museum