Grace Farms Foundation Centre in New Canaan

Set on slender steel columns 13 cm in diameter, the gleaming 400-metre-long aluminium-covered roof of the Grace Farms centre is a wafer-thin strip that seems to float above the ground, following the undulations of the site like a river. The creation of the laminated timber roof beams as up to 30-metre-long units gives some idea of Sanaa’s perfectionist aspirations. The...