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Information from the museum: Located at the intersection of Euclid Avenue and Mayfield Road, the new MOCA is a flagship project of Cleveland?s emerging Uptown district, a major urban-revitalization project undertaken by Case Western Reserve University; developer MRN, Ltd.; and other institutions in the University Circle neighborhood.

The Museum will serve as a catalyst for creativity and growth in the area?which is home to one of the country?s largest concentrations of cultural, educational, and medical institutions?with greatly expanded educational and public programs, as well as imaginative collaborations with neighboring organizations and cultural partners.

Designed by the internationally acclaimed firm Foreign Office Architects (FOA), London. The nearly 34,000-square-foot, four-story structure is FOA?s first major building in the United States, and its first museum.
FOA has responded ingeniously to the project?s roughly triangular site by designing a building with a hexagonal base that, with imperceptible changes in the shape of each story, rises to a square roof. Viewed from the exterior, the building will appear as an inventive massing of six geometric facets, some flat, others sloping at various angles, all coming together to create a powerful abstract form.

Clad primarily in mirror-finish black Rimex stainless steel, the façade of the new MOCA will reflect its urban surroundings, changing in appea...