Prominent architect Steven Holl has a project going on in KC, the expansion of the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art.

This project has caused both praise and consternation, as one could construe the buildings to look like tool sheds. Love it or hate it.

http://www.stevenholl.com/

Rendering from Holl's website:
http://www.stevenholl.com/images/175BD01.jpg

And now, photos I took of the museum grounds, plus the construction areas.

Taken the evening of January 14, 2006.

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And I'm spent for tonight.

Very beautiful pictures !!