Saturday, December 29, 2012

SLAM, Gilbert, Chipperfield & Goldsworthy

Cass Gilbert designed the Central Library (featured in a previous post) as well as our St. Louis Art Museum. David Chipperfield (design chief of this year's Venice Bienalle - featured in another post) is the designer of the Art Museum's new addition scheduled to open in the summer of 2013. Andy Goldsworthy is an artist from the U.K. who finished a commission called Stone Sea, situated between the Gilbert & the Chipperfield.

From paper to life...stone defining space - the last 100+ years in a nutshell: