Architect Of Bloch Building Ten Years On, And An Onslaught Of 'Megafires'

By Steve Kraske,

Published November 8, 2017 at 3:48 PM CST

The Nelson-Atkins Museum campus with an illuminated Bloch Building on right. — "One of the great things about a place like this, with so many dimensions," says Steven Holl, who designed the Bloch Building, "is you can come back and return again and again and again and always see something new."

When the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art opened the Bloch Building, its "lens" architecture was so different from the existing museum that many didn't see how the two could stand side by side. Today, the architect of the addition, Steven Holl, talks about returning to his building ten years later. Then, we learn about an ongoing and enduring increase in wildfires and what it means for the people whose job it is to manage the effects.

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