MOCA's new building to open on 8 October 2012
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Cleveland in Ohio, US is set to open its new building, currently under construction, in University Circle's Uptown district on 8 October 2012.
The four-level facility has been designed by Iranian-born Farshid Moussavi of London. It will span over an area of 34,000 square feet which will be 44% more compared to the existing rented area of MOCA. The building will measure 60 feet in height. Its base will be hexagonal while its top portion will don a square shape. All the four stories of the structure will comprise exhibition or public programme space.
The facade of the new building will possess a mirror-finish black Rimex stainless steel and glass cladding. The facets of the building will feature triangular and keystone shapes and will be striated with diagonal window strips. A few of these facets will lean in or out. A total of three facets of the six-faceted structure will flank a public plaza. The design of the plaza has been conceived by New York-based landscape and urban design company James Corner Field Operations.
