<http://schema.org/articleBody>
"The Architect's Eye: The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki\nLee F. Mindel sees the light at this contemporary Finnish landmark\nThe split entry to the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, where two forms converge.\nA view from under the overhang at the museum's entry, looking toward Eliel Saarinen's Helsinki Central Railway Station.\nA round mirror on a zinc wall at the entry where visitors can place their colorful admission stickers when leaving, creating a Damien Hirst\u2013like composition.\nA Cubist-type architectural configuration at the museum's entry.\nThe curvilinear light wall meeting the intersecting geometric forms of the museum.\nThe end elevation of the light wall.\nLooking at an interior staircase from outside of the museum.\nA detail of the intersection of geometric shapes, from the museum's exterior.\nThe trees' silhouettes in the late-afternoon sun at 2:45 Helsinki time.\nAn exterior view of one end of the museum structure.\nA detail of the end elevation.\nLooking at the roof's transition from the gallery spaces to the ground.\nA detail of the roof's transition.\nA view of the peeled skin of the roof's transition into the administrative spaces.\nA detail of the curved roof.\nAn exterior view of the administrative spaces.\nA ramp that expresses the intersection of the two geometries, inside of the museum.\nA detail of the ramp structure, from the top.\nLooking down the trapezoidal stairs at the end of the light wall.\nA detail of the staircase.\nSteven Holl's custom light design represents the building's intersection of geometries in a single sconce.\nA stairway to the public amenities.\nThe sunlight from outside the museum bathes the trapezoidal staircase.\nAt night, light from inside the museum shines through to passersby.\nThe nighttime light from the dynamic, ever-changing wall reflects off of the snow, illuminating the expanse from Eliel Saarinen's nearby Helsinki Central Railway Station to Alvar Aalto's Finlandia Hall.\nA view of the interior ramp, seen at night from outside the museum.\nA detail of the trees' silhouettes at night, against the interior light shining through the wall.\nDuring the day the sun illuminates the building; at night the building gives light to its surroundings."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/steve-holl-kiasma-museum-helsinki-finland-slideshow>