The architect who designed the world's first LEED certified art museum in Grand Rapids also is working on the interior of the Art Institute of Chicago. That, and his ability to integrate "green" concepts into the Grand Rapids Art Museum's modern building, and plunk it tastefully in the middle of Grand Rapids' Victorian architecture, grabbed this Chicago journalist's attention—and praise.
According to excerpts from the story:
Grand Rapids—A building expected to become the world's first all-new green art museum opened in this western Michigan city Friday, yet it has little in common with the earnest but visually challenged solar houses of the 1970s. No clunky rooftop solar panels here, thank you.
Instead, the new Grand Rapids Art Museum is a serene temple of green, one whose energy-saving features are deftly layered into the building rather than crudely glommed onto it. Elegance and environmentalism, it reveals, are not incompatible.
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