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Architects: Patkau Architects
- Area: 56000 ft²
- Year: 2016
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Photographs:James Dow / Patkau Architects
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Manufacturers: Cloverdale Weather, Garibaldi Glass, Pacific Coast Hemlock, Seam Lock, Whistler Forest Products
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Lead Architects: John Patkau, Patricia Patkau, David Shone, Michael Thorpe
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Landscape: PFS Studio, Tom Barratt
Text description provided by the architects. The form and character of the Audain Art Museum are deliberately restrained to provide a quiet, minimal backdrop to the art within and the surrounding natural landscape. The simple form of the exterior is clad in an envelope of dark metal which recedes into the shadows of the surrounding forest. Where this envelope is opened, to provide access in the entry porch or view from the glazed walkway to the galleries, the dark metal is overlaid by an inviting luminous wood casing. Public spaces in the interior, which are visible from the exterior, continue this warm luminous materiality.
