“We chose David Chipperfield as vice president of the jury because we wanted a functional museum rather than a cream tart of a building,” explains Bernard Fibicher, director of the Musée Cantonal des Beaux- Arts (MCBA) in Lausanne, Switzerland. He’s referring to the 2010–11 architectural competition for the 134,000-square-foot, $85 million edifice, which opened in October next to the city’s main railroad station. With Barcelona-based Barozzi Veiga—a 2014 Record Vanguard that will soon be reworking the Art Institute of Chicago—the jury found exactly what they were looking for: an “anti-Bilbao” brick-clad box that makes optimal, undisturbed contemplation of artworks its principal business.