Grace Farms in New Canaan, Connecticut is an 80-acre site owned and operated by the Grace Farms Foundation. The River building was designed by SANAA, led by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, with landscape design by OLIN. It opened in 2015. The article gives no construction start date and no formal style, describing a linear, curving form that references a river.
Five glass-enclosed volumes sit under a roof of anodized aluminum on more than 200 steel columns, with glulam timber beams and cedar fascia. The superstructure runs about 1,400 feet (427 m), and 55 geothermal wells, each 500 feet (152 m) deep, serve it. The Sanctuary seats 700.
Awards include the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize and the 2017 AIA National Honor Award. It is free and open six days a week.
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