Glassell School of Art Opens on May 20 in New Building

Designed by Steven Holl Architects, the 85,000-square-foot building replaces a 1970s building by S.I. Morris and Associates.

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The Glassell School of Art and Brown Foundation, Inc. Plaza open on May 20. The plaza features Anish Kapoor’s "Cloud Column" and Eduardo Chillida’s "Song of Strength."

Courtesy Steven Holl Architects

The Glassell School of Art and Brown Foundation, Inc. Plaza open on May 20. The plaza features Anish Kapoor’s "Cloud Column" and Eduardo Chillida’s "Song of Strength."

The Steven Holl Architects–designed Glassell School of Art building will be dedicated on May 20, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston announced today. The 85,000-square-foot building replaces the former school building designed by S.I. Morris and Associates and built in the late 1970s. The Brown Foundation, Inc. Plaza by New York landscape firm Deborah Nevins & Associates with Nevins & Benito Landscape Architecture also opens that day.

The new structure and plaza, located at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is part of a redevelopment of the museum’s Susan and Fayez S. Sarofim Campus, which includes another under-construction building by Steven Holl Architects. The campus redevelopment is expected to wrap by 2020.

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Sara Johnson is the former associate editor, design news at ARCHITECT. Previously, she was a fellow at CityLab. Her work has also appeared in San Francisco, San Francisco Brides, California Brides, DCist, Patchwork Nation, and The Christian Science Monitor.

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