The steel girders that support the our unique “Floating Rectangle” have gone up on the Hilbert Museum construction site!

The steel girders that support the our unique “Floating Rectangle” have gone up on the Hilbert Museum construction site!

This will be the huge open-topped structure over the main courtyard that visually unifies the two buildings. This west-facing façade will carry the 40-foot-long, 16-foot-high glass mosaic by Millard Sheets. It needs this strong steel skeleton to effectively bear the weight of all that glass and matrix.

This is a major construction benchmark — the two buildings are now linked, and the full design is really beginning to take shape now.