Guess the Architect Contest August 2016

The main hall of this basilica of commerce features a glass roof where light bounces off aluminum fittings and passes through its translucent glass-block floor. The proto-modern concrete structure now includes a museum honoring its visionary architect.

Guess the Architect August 2016 — *Photo © Maggie Jeanlee*

CLUE: THE MAIN HALL OF THIS BASILICA OF COMMERCE FEATURES A GLASS ROOF WHERE LIGHT BOUNCES OFF ALUMINUM FITTINGS AND PASSES THROUGH ITS TRANSLUCENT GLASS-BLOCK FLOOR. THE PROTO-MODERN CONCRETE STRUCTURE NOW INCLUDES A MUSEUM HONORING ITS VISIONARY ARCHITECT.

The answer to the July issue's Guess the Architect is KARL FRIEDRICH SCHINKEL, who designed the first public museum on what is now Berlin’s Museum Island. His Altes (Old) Museum, which opened in 1830, houses a collection of antiquities befitting the exemplary neoclassical architecture.

working with the French office of A.C.T. Architecture, transformed the palatial Quai d’Orsay train station

in Paris, designed by Victor Laloux in 1900, into the Musée d’Orsay, which exhibits art from 1848 to 1915.

PERKINS, WHEELER & WILL (now Perkins + Will). The two offices teamed up to design the influential,

modernist Crow Island School in Winnetka, Illinois, in 1940–41.

By entering, you have a chance to win an iPad mini.

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