Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa are the collaborative architects behind the minimal, yet consistently stark buildings appearing in unlikely areas. Sejima and Nishizawa have been working together under the name SANNA since 1995, since then they have produced the Dior store in Tokyo, the Zollverin School of Design in Essen and the New Museum in New York. With all three SANNA have used an excellent degree of proportion with the surroundings and the materials of glass and concrete give a minimal yet intriguing aspect to the design. The New Museum is set in the Bowery, between Stanton and Rivington and as you walk towards it the contrast of shops selling restaurant supplies seems strangely odd, against the child-like glass building blocks stacked up on top of one another. 'The New Museum is a combination of elegant and urban', they say, and we can only agree that this seems to have been achieved impeccably.
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