For an exciting, but not too ambitious return to blogging, I wanted to take a look at the progress of the new home for the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Cleveland. Ground was broken for the building in December 2010, and visible parts of the construction have proceeded rapidly at times during the past year.
The following three photos show the building from Mayfield Road south of the site. They were taken in July, October, and December respectively.
The design, by Foreign Office Architects of London and Farshid Moussavi Architecture, is their first in the United States. As you can see from the photographs, the design is a crystalline inspired shape with six sides at the bottom becoming four sides at the top. The building will be four stories tall, containing galleries, administrative offices and meeting space. The next few photos are taken from the east at the Corner of Mayfield Rd. and Euclid Avenue over the same time period.
It seems I do not have any pictures from the Euclid Avenue side to the north, showing what will eventually be the main entrance in an all glass triangular wall. I will try to include one of those with a future entry. The MOCA building is a part of the broader Uptown mixed use project along Euclid Avenue in University Circle. I plan to share some pictures of the rest of the project in the coming weeks.
