Architect Steven Holl was tasked with designing the Virginia university’s new contemporary art museum. In the same vein to his previous body of work, the new museum consists of a composition of bold forms and a full spectrum of transparencies and opacities. We provided shop drawings and detail engineering to coalesce the complex 3D geometry with the reality of panelized materials. The double-curved surface is imitated in purely flat metal tiles that we worked to coordinate to the building’s steel skeleton. The sides are clad in a milky white laminated glass that blend to the entire Gesamtkunstwerk during the day but glow like lanterns at night.