The New New Plan For Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Museum

In stark contrast to a more compact design released last summer, the plan, designed by Shohei Shigematsu of the international architecture firm OMA, features a new building on the northwest side of the Albright-Knox campus along Iroquois Drive. Sheathed in what Shigematsu called a “translucent skin,” the transparent ziggurat of a building will allow pedestrians to see inside of its galleries and flexible event spaces. It also will contain a public atrium and café.