Steven Holl gives a new glow to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. And we like it! The addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO) opening in June, runs along the eastern edge of the museum campus and provides a counterpoint to the original 1933 Beaux-Arts building. Five lenses of glass walls emerge from the ground and create a luminous, undulating interplay between architecture, landscape and art. Check the Photo essay here 

The new Bloch Building is the centerpiece of a dramatic transformation of the entire institution that includes major renovations to the original building, a restoration of the Sculpture Park and a complete reinstallation of the permanent galleries, drawing from the more than 33,500 works in its encyclopedic collection. The new 165,000-square-foot expansion increases museum space by more than 70 percent and features a cascading level of expansive, light-filled galleries.

Marc F. Wilson, Menefee D. and Mary Louise Blackwell Director/ CEO of the museum states: “The completion of this amazing transformation is an aesthetic and programmatic achievement, both for the Nelson-Atkins and for the entire community of Kansas City. Steven Holl and his team arrived at a brilliant solution that completely fulfilled the requirements of the Museum’s strategic plan and its architectural program while responding creatively to the injunctions of the community.