The Caixa Galicia Foundation, a regional cultural center designed by Grimshaw Architects, packs a lot of design intensity into a small but prime port-side site in La Coruña, on Spain’s northwest Atlantic coast. Only 72 feet wide, its custom-designed facade forms a single eccentric gesture, parabolic and off-kilter in section, that nevertheless takes a respectful place among the glazed wooden galleries of the city’s traditional seafront buildings. It plunges three floors below the sidewalk to bring natural light to an underground gallery and auditorium, and rolls over the top of the building to drop down to the intimate scale of the pedestrian alleys behind it. A full-height central interior atrium stuffed with stairs and glass-floored bridges echoes this curving, unbroken exterior surface as it slices through the building.
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