The missing link: in the Galician city of A Coruna, Grimshaw's first gallery demonstrates the practice's trademark ingenuity with a unique glass and marble skin.

From: The Architectural Review | Date: November 1, 2006| Author: Gregory, Rob | Copyright information

The Caixa Galicia Art Foundation is a significant building. Significant for its city, providing a new cultural focus (with galleries, a cafe and an impressive subterranean venue), and significant for its patron, Caixa Galicia, a cooperative bank that re-invests profits into civic cultural amenity. For the architects, too, it is significant. For the practice, adding the first gallery to its extensive portfolio, and for the project team who endured almost a decade of hard graft. Now ...

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