Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona
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| Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art | |
| Designer | Will Bruder |
| Location | Scottsdale, United States |
| Date | 1996 to 1999 |
| Climate | desert |
| Context | urban |
| Builder | Howard S. Wright Construction Co. |
| Street Address | Phoenix, Arizona |
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| Building Details | |
| Client | City of Scottsdale |
| Cost | $2M |
| Area | 18,000 sf. |
| Stories | 1 |
The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art is an architectural celebration of poetry and pragmatism for the city. With this inventive transformation of an existing multiplex theater, the Gerard L. Cafesjian Pavilion has become an exciting new cultural anchor in the Scottsdale Civic Center Complex. Focused on the development of optimal gallery environments for the presentation of contemporary art at the start of the new millennium, the museum’s 14,000 square feet of gallery space have made it a major venue among the world’s new landmark museums. The building presents an ever changing environment of reflections, shadows, and brilliant color through the combination of the shimmering translucent screened sculpture courtyard by glass artist James Carpenter and the sensuously curving metallic forms that define the entrance. State-of-the-art mechanical systems and a flexible gallery lighting package create an ideal museum setting. In addition to the design of the museum, Will Bruder Architects designed a complete masterplan for the area that integrates the Scottsdale Center for the Arts into the city’s urban arts district.
