Part of a 15-year, $145 million expansion project, the world-renowned Sterling and Francis Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, features an impressive new glass, stone and concrete Visitor Center created with curtainwall systems from Wausau Window and Wall Systems. Opened July 4, 2014, the new 42,600-square-foot visitor’s center, formally know as the Clark Center, was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando.
Transparency plays an integral part of Ando’s design, visually integrating the museum’s new and renovated indoor spaces with the campus’ 140-acres of outdoor woodland. He explained, “Light is the origin of all being. Light gives, with each moment, new form to being and new interrelationships to things, and architecture condenses light to its most concise being. The creation of space in architecture is simply the condensation and purification of the power of light.”