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Building: MUSAC—Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León

Location: León, Spain

Building Type: Museum

Address: Avenida de los Reyes Leoneses, 24, 24008 León, Spain

Year: 2005

Design Architect: Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos

Lead Architects: Luis Moreno Mansilla, Emilio Tuñón Álvarez

Additional Architectural Team: Andrés Regueiro, Luis Díaz-Mauriño, Ainoa Prats, Jaime Gimeno, Matilde Peralta, Clara Moneo, Teresa Cruz, Óscar F. Aguayo, Gregory Peñate, Katrien Vertenten, Ricardo Lorenzana

Client: Gesturcal S.A., Government of Castilla y León

Construction / Assembly Contractor: Musac de León UTE (FCC / Teconsa)

Structural Engineers: Alfonso Gómez Gaite (Gogaite)

Size: 10,000 m² (built-up area), 21,000 m² (total project site area), single-storey

Mechanical Engineering / MEP: J.G. Ingenieros (J.G. Asociados)

Lighting Design: C&G Carandini

Architectural Photography: Luis Asin, Roland Halbe

AE Interests: Contemporary Architecture; Polychromatic Modernism; Geometric Brutalism; Open System Chessboard Layout (Squares and Rhombi); White Exposed Concrete Interiors; Distinctive Multicolored Glass Facade; Stained-Glass Window Metaphor (Leon Cathedral) ties together the city’s historical past and modern age in one; Prefabricated Concrete Beams; Continuous Concrete Pavement; Concave Entrance Agora Plaza

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