Aspen Art Museum
ASPEN ART MUSEUM
Aspen, CO, United States
LOCATION
Aspen, CO, United States
TYPE
Cultural › Museum
The New Aspen Art Museum is located in the center of the high mountain town of Aspen Colorado on a prominent downtown corner site.
The three story kunsthalle provides galleries on the first two floors above ground level and on one floor below.
The third floor is a multi-function space and café.
Half of the third area is given over to an outdoor terrace with views up to the mountains.
Design features include an innovative long-span timber space-frame roof structure, woven panel façade, structural glass floors for gallery day-lighting, outdoor gallery stair which connects the site plaza to the third floor roof level, and glass elevator.
T +81 3 3324 6760 F +81 3 3324 6789
Shigeru Ban Architects
5-chōme-2-4 Matsubara, Setagaya City, Tokyo 156-0043, Japan