Article source: HGA Architects and Engineers

The new Museum of Wisconsin Art (MOWA) in West Bend, Wisconsin, designed by Jim Shields, FAIA, Project Lead Designer at HGA Architects and Engineers (HGA), achieves a subtle balance between architecture as art and architecture as a neutral setting for art. The crisp, triangular geometry of the 31,000-square-foot, two-level museum moves from a glass-enclosed entrance at the southwest corner to a wedge-resolving point at the opposite end, where a glass curtain wall reveals an interior stairwell. Clad in custom, horizontal, modular fiber-cement panels in three shades of white, the surface of the building projects a soft and gentle variegation of color.

Image Courtesy © Darris Lee Harris

• Architects: HGA Architects and Engineers
• Project: MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART (MOWA)
• Location: West Bend, U.S.A
• Photography: Darris Lee Harris
• Software used: Sketchup, 3DMax and Revit
• Client: Museum of Wisconsin Art
• Owner: Thomas Lidtke, Executive Director
• Start Date: 2009
• Completion Date: April 2013
• Design Architect: HGA Architects and Engineers
• Mechanical Engineering Firm: HGA Architects and Engineers
• Electrical Engineering Firm: HGA Architects and Engineers
• Structural Engineering Firm: HGA Architects and Engineers
• Interior Design Firm: HGA Architects and Engineers
• Civil,Landscape Architecture Firm: Graef
• General Contractor: M.A. Mortenson