The Glass Pavilion is a building of the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio. It was designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA and opened in 2006. The museum is the client, and the pavilion displays its glass collection.
The design is a single one-story volume made of layers of transparent walls. Courtyards cut through the volume, so visitors see through several walls to the greenery outside. The pavilion has about 7,000 square meters (75,000 square feet) of built area on a 20,000 square meter site.
The building also contains a glassmaking facility, so the collection and its making sit under one roof. Guy Nordenson and Associates with SAPS handled the structure. Front Inc. was the glass consultant, and Arup worked on the lighting.
This building has no Wikipedia article. Facts come from ArchDaily, Nordenson and Associates.
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