When a cultural institution relocates from leased space to a permanent home of its own, it has a rare opportunity to reinvent itself. Cleveland's Museum of Contemporary Art has seized that opportunity, commissioning a compact building that fuses form and function. The design architect-Foreign Office Architects (FOA), of London-conceived an elegant, prismlike shape that would occupy just one corner of its triangular site, leaving the remainder of the space for use as an open plaza. At ground level, the 34,000 sq ft structure has six sides, each 62 ft long. As it rises, however, its sides change shape until what began as a hexagonal plan becomes a 92 by 92 ft square at the top.
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机译：当文化机构从租赁空间搬迁到自己的永久住所时，它几乎没有机会进行自我改造。克利夫兰当代艺术博物馆抓住了这个机会，委托了一座融合了形式和功能的紧凑型建筑。伦敦的设计建筑师-外国办公室建筑师（FOA）构思出一种优雅的棱柱形形状，该形状将仅占据其三角形位置的一个角，而将其余空间用作开放广场。在地面上，这个34,000平方英尺的结构有六个侧面，每个侧面长62英尺。但是，随着它的上升，其侧面会改变形状，直到六角形平面开始变成顶部的92 x 92平方英尺。
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