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BlochAdditionStevenHoll

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Image ID :	461568639
View/Description :	Exterior view from Rockhill Road with view of "Tom's Cubicle" by Alexander Calder
Image Date :	2007
Image Creator :	Frank Jackson
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Rights Owner :	Frank Jackson
Image Source :	http://www.flickr.com/photos/frankphotos/461568639/
URL to larger image :	http://farm1.static.flickr.com/173/461568639_3e6d4e2626_o.jpg

Work ID :	BlochAdditionSteveHoll
Title :	Nelson-Atkins Museum Bloch Addition Henry W. Bloch Building
Creator/Agent :	Holl, Steven [ULAN] [ARCHITECT] Kiley, Daniel Urban [ULAN] [LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT]
Date (of work) :	2007
Location/Site :	United States {TGN] Missouri [TGN] Kansas City [TGN] Kansas City, MO
GIS Coordinates :	+39.044973-94.581009/
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Description :	five glass structures (called lenses by Holl) on the east side of the original Nelson-Atkins Museum building, atop underground buildings
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Work Type :	Architecture Museums [AAT]
Measurements :	65,000-square-foot (15,300 m²)
Material :	glass
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Style/Period/ Group/Movement :	Twenty-first Century
Cultural Context :	American [AAT]
Subject :	Museums [AAT] Art museums [AAT]
Relation :	expansion of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Wight and Wight, 1930-33)
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Text Reference :	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson-Atkins_Museum_of_Art
Keywords :	sloping site, urban, public
Notes :	Holl won the international competition in 1999 for the design of the addition; the addition houses the museum's contemporary, African, photography, and special exhibitions galleries as well a new cafe, the museum's reference library, and the Isamu Noguchi Sculpture Court