Alberto Campo Baeza

Alberto Campo Baeza and Miguel Quismondo have won the Design Skill Award in the Best Cultural & Public Architecture category for their Robert Olnick Pavilion.

The Robert Olnick Pavilion is an extension of the MagaZZino Museum of Italian Arte Povera in Cold Spring, New York.

The new Pavilion has two floors and is a straight rectangular parallelepiped-shaped building of reinforced concrete, which will house a Murano glass collection, the cafeteria, and more exhibition spaces.

Special emphasis is placed on the main exhibit area, which is a white, cubic, isotropic space that will house temporary exhibitions and serve as a focal point of the museum.

Isotropic space, as defined by the dictionary, has the same characteristics in all directions and from any point. If we could fly, from the centre the space would be identical in all directions.