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Museum · Late modernism

National Gallery of Art, East Building

I. M. Pei · Washington, United States · 1978

Key featuresA trapezoid site split into two triangles, with knife-edge marble corners and a skylit triangular atrium.

Architect
I. M. Pei
Place
Washington, United States
Year
1978
Typology
Museum
Movement
Late modernism
Region
Americas
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