Kogod Courtyard (Washington DC, US)
The Kogod Courtyard, with its elegant glass canopy designed by world renowned architect Norman Foster, opened to the public on November 23, 2007 at the historic Patent Office Building that houses the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.
Foster, winner of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize (1999), worked with the Smithsonian to create an innovative enclosure for the 28,000-square-foot (2,601-sq-meter) space at the centre of the building that is sensitive to the historic structure; the new 'floating' roof does not rest on the original building which was built in phases between 1836 and 1868.
Image: Children play at the new Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard. | Photograph: Tim Sloan/AFP/Getty Images
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