The Quadracci Pavilion

The Quadracci Pavilion at the Milwaukee Art Museum, designed by Santiago Calatrava and completed in 2001, is a steel-and-glass addition on the shore of Lake Michigan that functions as a piece of kinetic architecture. Its 'Burke Brise-Soleil' — a 72-element movable sunscreen with a 66-metre wingspan — opens and closes in a slow, 90-second choreographed sequence at museum opening, noon, and closing, appearing to lift the building into flight over the lake. Calatrava's first completed project in the United States, it was an early signal of 21st-century iconic museum architecture and is now Milwaukee's most recognisable civic landmark.

Exhibition Venue

Milwaukee Art Museum

Milwaukee, United States