This was designed to showcase the iconic building by architect Farshid Moussavi, the art of our times, and the versatility of MOCA’s exciting new home at the corner of Euclid Avenue and Mayfield Road in the new Uptown neighborhood. The highly anticipated opening of the new Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA) featured three days of celebration in October. MOCA Hosts Three-day Opening Weekend Festivities – Art & Architecture Celebration Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland Building images / information from Farshid Moussavi Photo : Foreign Office Architects The Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland – Building Informationĭesign Architect: Farshid Moussavi Architecture (until June 2011 FOA)Įxecutive Architect: Westlake Reed LeskoskyĮngineering Services: Westlake Reed Leskosky This floor also contains a gallery designed for new media work and a Lounge, which overlooks the plaza and Uptown. On the top floor the 6,000-square-foot gallery space has no fixed dividing walls, allow¬ing for a variety of configurations.

This space leads to MOCA’s lobby, café and shop, and to a double-height multi-purpose room for public programs and events.įrom there, visitors may take MOCA’s grand staircase, a dominant architectural feature of the building, to the upper floors. Upon entering the building, visitors will find themselves in an atrium where they can see the dynamic shape and structure of the building as it rises. Three of the building’s six facets, one of them clad in transparent glass, flank a public plaza which is to serve as a public gathering place and to link MOCA to Uptown attractions and amenities, including the expanded Cleveland Institute of Art, and new commercial space and residential units. Located on the corner of its triangular site, the building is designed with entrances on all its sides to allow it to open along its entire perimeter and be used in many different ways.Ĭlad primarily in mirror-finish black stainless steel, the building envelope reflects its urban surroundings, changing in appearance with differences in light and weather. All four floors contain areas for either exhibitions or public programs. The four-story building, which anchors the Uptown district, liberates space for a plaza and rises 60 feet from a hexagonal base to a square top, where the primary exhibition space is located. Flexibility is key to enable the museum to display works in a great variety of media and genres. Because MOCA is a non-collecting institution – one of the relatively few such contemporary art museums in the country – its new building does not need to accommodate collection galleries. MOCA Cleveland is a 34,000 ft2 non-collecting contemporary art museum designed to serve as a catalyst for creativity and growth in a cosmopolitan Cleveland neighborhood, which is home to one of the country’s largest concentrations of cultural, educational and medical institutions. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland MOCA – Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland – Opening Newsĭesign: Farshid Moussavi / Foreign Office Architects (FOA)Ĭleveland’s new Museum of Contemporary Art by Farshid MoussaviĪddress: 11400 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106, United States

Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland Building The overall winner for the Design of The Year 2013 will be announced on Wednesday 16 April. The awards celebrate the best of international design from the last 12 months.

The Design Museum announces the seven category winners for the annual Designs of the Year Awards. Design Museum Award : shortlisted for the Architecture category,

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