The new 164,000-square-foot museum building shaped by gardens of horizontal porosity is open on all sides. The thirdfloor galleries are naturally litwith 16-20% natural light falling across the walls in the art zone. In contrast to the diffuse light admitted through openings behind the glass facade, bright sunlight streams into the museums atrium, thanks to six reflecting pools that occupy notches in the base of the building. The Kinder boasts more than 100,000 square feet of exhibition space, increasing the MFAHs room for showcasing art by a whopping 75 percent. In 2014, the Kinder Foundation made possible the Kinder Forum on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri, a program "to support excellence in the teaching and study of American constitutional and democratic traditions". Design, CMS, Hosting & Web Development :: ePublishing, Listen to Architectural Records DESIGN:ED Podcast, This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. sited to preserve all Live Oak trees, Rychiee Espinosa, Yiqing Zhao, Lourenzo Amaro de Oliveira, Garrick Ambrose, Xi Chen, Carolina Cohen Freue, JongSeo Lee, Vahe Markosian, Elise Riley, Christopher Rotman, Yun Shi, Alfonso Simelio, Dimitra Tsachrelia, Yasmin Vobis, Yiqing Zhao (project team), 450 West 31st Street, New York, NY 10001 (212) 629-7262, CBS Sunday Morning The luminist architecture of Steven Holl, Kinder Building receives AIA NYS Design Honor Award and is named Best of the Best, Kinder Museum Buildings Faade Continues 40-year Plus Research, Vote for the Kinder Museum Building in the AZ Design Peoples Choice Award, THE NANCY AND RICH KINDER BUILDING OPENS AT THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON, Houstons Museum of Fine Arts Is Proof That Everything Really Is Bigger In Texas, The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building will open to the public November 21, 2022 The PLAN Award, Honorable Mention in Culture Category, 2022 National Terrazzo & Mosaic Association, Inc., 2022 Job of the Year, 2022 ENR Texas & Louisiana, Best of the Best: Best Cultural/Worship, 2021 ENR Texas & Louisiana, Best Project: Cultural/Worship, 2021 Architects Newspaper, Winner in Facades Category, 2021 Architects Newspaper, Honorable Mention in Cultural Category, 2021 AIA New York Design, Honor Award and "Best of the Best", 2021 Texas Society of Architects Design Award, 2021 Architecture MasterPrize, and "Best of the Best", 2021 Houston Business Journal Landmark Award for Community Impact, 2020 Architectural Digest, Most Anticipated Building of the Year, 2020 Vanceva World of Color Awards - Exterior Category Winner, 2020 Azure Magazine, Top 10 Architecture Projects of the Year. The three-story building (four, if you count the two underground Insta-tastic tunnels that connect it to the rest of the MFAHs 14-acre Sarofim Campus) boasts more than 100,000 square feet of exhibition space, increasing the MFAHs room for showcasing art by a whopping 75 percent. By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to the use of cookies. LEED Silver The Lynn Wyatt Theater on the lower level of the Kinder Building. He specializes in seamlessly integrating new projects into contexts with particular cultural and historic importance. 2020 Cristina Iglesias. In 2022, Kinder Foundation gifted Rice University another $50 million to expand Kinder Institutes work to solve challenges facing Houston.[20].