Piano And Kahn – A Dance That Never Happens At The Kimbell

“Indeed, the two buildings hardly speak to each other. Rather, Piano’s addition sits implacably behind a screen of sentry-like elms, generally mirroring Kahn’s building in scale and materiality, but otherwise failing to engage it in any kind of meaningful dialog or to charge the grassy space between them. The head-to-head battle of architectural heavyweights never truly materializes.”