Nevada Museum of Art

The Museum frames a series of well-scaled and formed galleries, choreographed in a sequence for memorabe visual experiences. Entry into the Museum is through a compressed wedge of intimately scaled walls inserted under the raked black ceiling of the first level public spaces. The visitor is at once inside and outside in a glass pavillion and four-story skylight atrium,carving through the entiresection of the building. The roof terrace sculpture garden caps the atrium and staircase. Taking over more than half of the roof's surface, this space is formed by the edges of the building as they sweep up on a rake to the sky where random crevices on the west frame the city, the sky, and distant views of the Black Rock Desert.