‘We wanted to take the sustainability of the building to the extreme,’ says Francis Kéré of the timber structure designed in cooperation with Austrian wood specialists HK Architekten.
Building materials must adapt to modern designs. Architects can use vapor barriers help to control moisture in tighter building designs.
‘Drawing After Modernism’ showcases drawings, paintings, prints, and more by the likes of Zaha Hadid, Louis Kahn, Rem Koolhaas, Aldo Rossi, and Bernard Tschumi.
Curving, compartmentalized, and clad in oak, the store’s 120-foot-long display wall acts as both an object of interest and a space-maker.