New York–based Meier Partners, known as Richard Meier & Partners from 1963 up until June 2021 when its founder retired at the age of 86 and the firm underwent a major leadership restructuring plan, has unveiled its first completed project: a contemporary art museum in Gangneung, a major city on South Korea’s eastern coast. With a pared-back design language inspired by Korean Confucianism that emphasizes simplicity of form and an innate connection with the natural environment, the new Sorol Art Museum is built from glass, stone, aluminum, and a trademark material of the reorganized firm’s Pritzker Prize–winning namesake: exposed white concrete.
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