American architecture firm Bruner/Cott has completed the latest stage in transforming a former textile factory into the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.
The museum sits at the heart of North Adams, an industrial town in the Berkshires area of Massachusetts.
The area is an unlikely arts hub, but neighbouring Williamstown is also home to the historic Williams College for arts, and the Clark Art Institute ? which was extended by Tadao Ando and renovated by Annabelle Selldorf before reopening in 2014.

The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) occupies a vast complex that was first a textile manufacturing facility, and then a premises for producing electrical goods.
Its latest expansion into the part of the site known as Building 6 forms the third phase of its transformation, which has almost doubled the amount of exhibition space to 250,000 square feet (23,200 square metres) and makes it one of the largest museums of contemporary art in the US. Set to open in May 2017, it also creates a home for long-term installations by American artists including James Turrell, Louise Bourgeois and Laurie Anderson.

Cambridge-based Bruner/Cott & Associates has been responsible for all stages of the site's conversion, which began in 1996.
The firm's aim throughout has been to maintain the industrial vestiges of the brick buildings and keep the "rugged raw vernacular typical of American industrial spaces" as much as possible.
Building 6 is located at the ...