【正文】 tention. The dialogue between radically different yet interdependent buildings creates a contrast that heightens the features of each. Holl39。. Michael Caldwell, Domus 904, June, 200739。s luminescent vanes shift the entry court off axis in concert with Walter De Maria39。Jason Edward Kaufman, The Art Newspaper39。(? The museum expects annual attendance to grow from 350,000 to 450,000 (? Mr. Wilson feels the shakeup is enough to induce repeat attendance, which he says is the standard by which the success of the museum39。s the Most Anticipated Building of 2007.39。s when it runs down the side of the Kansas City Sculpture Park like a string of paper lanterns following the contours of a suburban lawn. That39。Nighttime is the best time to see the new addition to the NelsonAtkins Museum of Art。Der Architekt Steven Holl hat den Erweiterungsbau des NelsonAtkinsMuseums in Kansas City zum skulpturalen Ereignis werden lassen39。But it is on the inside that Holl shows his chops, using the most elusive and difficult materials: space and light. He has designed shapeshifting spaces that flow, like an unfolding narrative, down ramps and graceful steps, with a canted wall here, a curve in the high ceiling there, as a visitor moves through the galleries for contemporary art, African art and photography. Light spills in at unexpected moments, from above or from big panes of glass overlooking the garden.39。s an approach that should be studied by anyone who sets out to design a museum from this point forward. 39。By subtly interweaving his building with the museum39。Steven Holl Architects merges architecture, art and landscape into a unified experience for the Bloch Building at the NelsonAtkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. Indeed, the integration of art, landscape, and architecture creates a dynamic whole where visitors including this observer are bowled over by the experience of meandering through and around the exterior and interior spaces. As the museumgoer walks through the Bloch Building, he or she is aware of the changing spaces, elongated and flowing into one another39。s extension to the NelsonAtkins Museum in Kansas City, Mo., which opened to raves in the spring, no building by a prominent architect to debut this year escaped critical plaint or public ambivalence altogether.39。. Board of Trustees for Nelson Gallery Foundation, Nelson Atkins Museum, June 18, 200739。Richard Lacayo, Time39。Adding a new wing to a neoclassical museum, Holl devised a spectacular update on classicism: an irregular series of volumes that cascade down the museum39。The most highly touted and maybe the best US building of the year was the astonishing Bloch Building, a wing of the NelsonAtkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. Architect Steven Holl (...) added a series of glassy galleries that spill down a green hillside, each gallery looking like an iceberg heaving itself up out of the ground. Because the museum is free of charge, visitors can move in and out at will, going between the indoor galleries and the outdoor sculpture gardens.39。A fantastic new addition to the museum is the muchacclaimed Bloch Building, which opened last summer. Designed by the architect Steven Holl, it prises five translucent glass structures. By day, they provide an ethereal ambience in which to view the contemporary art on show and, by night, glow like Japanese lanterns adjacent to the main museum.39。Des O39。What Steven Holl and his design partner Chris McVoy have achieved here is a dramatic transformation that manages to reconcile what in lesser hands might have been irreconcilable. They created an utterly 21st century addition taht is different in every way to the original structure yet in no way detracts from it. (...) The museum authorities are understandably thrilled with this amazing transformation. They feel Holl and his team arrived at a brilliant solution that pletely fulfilled the requirements of the museum39。s expansion of The NelsonAtkins Museum of Art infuses Modernism into the grassy landscape of the site, contrasting the 1933 Classical structure with five glasslens boxes that gather, diffuse, and refract light into new gallery spaces. (...) The museum extension features multiple entry points, an attempt to open the world of art inside to the larger munity.39。s pathways wind through them. 39。ll Norgelighting consultant (design development)– L39。ll Norgemechanical engineer (design development)– Ove Arupmechanical engineer (construction documents)– Ramb248。y and the farm where the writer grew up. The museum includes exhibition areas, a library and reading room, a cafe and an auditorium. The concept for the museum is building as a body, creating a battleground of invisible forces. The stained black wood exterior skin is characteristic of the great wooden stave Norse churches. The spine of the building body is the central elevator, providing handicapped and freight access to all parts of the building. At the roof garden the long grass reflects the traditional Norwegian sod roofs in a different way. Strange, surprising and phenomenal experiences in space perspective and light will provide an inspiring frame for the exhibitions. AWARDSProgressive Architecture Awards, USA, 1997AIA NY ARCHITECTURE HONOR AWARD, USA, 2010CREDITSarchitect– Steven Holl ArchitectsSteven Holl (desig