Dia Beacon is a museum of modern and contemporary art in Beacon, New York, in a former Nabisco box-printing factory built in 1929. Robert Irwin led the conversion, working with the architects Alan Koch, Lyn Rice, Galia Solomonoff and Linda Taalman of OpenOffice. The Dia Art Foundation owns it. It opened in 2003 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places that year. The article names no style.
The museum has 160,000 square feet of space on a 31-acre site beside 90 acres of riverfront parkland. Galleries were designed for specific artworks, and more than 34,000 square feet of skylights give reflected north light. Irwin also designed the entrance court and formal garden.
Works include Andy Warhol's Shadows and Richard Serra's Torqued Ellipses. About 100,000 people visit. Beacon station on Metro-North's Hudson Line is a five-minute walk away.
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