Just returned home after 2 weeks on Connecticut, and i visited this buiding in New Haven, on Yale University, is the last work by Kahn, completed after his death around 1974.

http://ycba.yale.edu/index.asp

Directions:
Yale Center for British Art
1080 Chapel Street‚ PO Box 208280
New Haven‚ Connecticut 06520-8280

HOW TO GET THERE:
Pretty easy, in the center of New Haven, is just one block from the New Haven Green, every bus on new haven will take you there.

In fron is the Yale Arts Gallery, the first building by Kahn, but it was on renovation so you couldnt see it.

The bilding is pure concrete, the floor is marble, carpet and wood, and wood wall coverings.

Is pretty simple concept, will suit perfectly on todays minimalism, a piece of art, i really enjoyed it, the collections were cool also, but im not such an art fan, i was just looking the building...hehehe

Pictures taken with a Canon Powershot a520

Outside:

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Entrance

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In the entrance lobby theres a tile with the following inscription.

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This is in the entrance level, behind the round staircase looking towards the above posted area (lobby), behind me theres the doors to the auditorium.

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Basement level, looking towards the stairs

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Inside the cylinder staircase, looking towards the roof, it has glass blocks on the ceiling, when youre on the 4th floor, it casts a nice shadow, it seems like being underwater

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1st floor gallery

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entrance to the stair on the 1st floor, behind that is what i call the "cylinder hall"

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detail, floor, wall covering and concrete strcuture

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4th floor, last level of the cylinder stairwell, the ceiling is pretty low, you can touch it

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the following images are from the last floor (4th), you see the glass ceiling that provides natural light to the whole place and some pictures looking towards the cylinder hall

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Looking towards the entrance void

In this last floor theres a small hallway that have info on Louis Kahn and this building, pictures of the plans, sectiones etc, and wood models.

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This are 2 windows that you see form outside, this ones are closed, is just a louver wood screen, that slides inisde the wall if you have it fully opened

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last one....for now....

last one....for now....

thanks for posting the images, but you forgot the most important thing... TRAVEL INFO, how to get there by public transport if possible etc.

could you please edit your first post to include such information?

thanks

ps... it would be nice if some of your posts explain what the spaces are too

thanks for posting the images, but you forgot the most important thing... TRAVEL INFO, how to get there by public transport if possible etc.

could you please edit your first post to include such information?

thanks

ps... it would be nice if some of your posts explain what the spaces are too
...going too......just that first i posted everything an dthen edit one by one...is easier....im at my lunch break, will do it in a few minutes.....

...going too......just that first i posted everything an dthen edit one by one...is easier....im at my lunch break, will do it in a few minutes.....
that's cool, that's how i do it sometimes too... just checking :cheers:

Let me help you with the kmz..-please please-

Here a snapshot for the mac crew, (those who didn't download the GE beta yet!)

Beautiful interior! Thanks for sharing you photos. :cheers:

Very nice post. Thanks a lot! :clap:

Great photo tour - thanks for posting. My son will be teaching at Yale this summer & I look forward to visiting & seeing both the building and the art.

I love this building. Aside from the architecture, its a wonderful place to view paintings as there are many views through and out of the building so the eye gets rest and relaxation from focusing on paintings.

Scale, materials, colors, and warmth suited to the collection of British art. Some nice Turners. I vastly prefer it to the large sterile white boxes deemed necessary to display contemporary art.

Great photo tour - thanks for posting. My son will be teaching at Yale this summer & I look forward to visiting & seeing both the building and the art.

The British Art Center was his Kahn's last commission, but be sure to see his first commission right across the street; the Yale Art Gallery. Not as wonderful as the BAC, but interesting to see his first and last together.

Definitely an Architect - poet! Love his buildings.

BTW: Do these pictures deserve THIS building? perhaps some Turner to raise the level, but from what I see.. :wondering

Just read your post PeterE, so there are a few Turners to see..!! :rock on:

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