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NASA Research Support Building in Cleveland
New Ohio Building, North America – design by TEN Arquitectos
Nov 16, 2018
NASA Research Support Building
Architects: TEN Arquitectos
Locations: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
NASA Research Support Building
Six decades after Congress enshrined its mission in law, NASA marks its diamond anniversary with the groundbreaking of a brand-new centerpiece for its Cleveland-based Glenn Research Center.

The birthplace of a wealth of now commonplace innovations, the facility consists of a constellation of primarily World War II-era brick buildings, which, despite their semi-circular distribution, lacked a central focus.
Thus, tasked with creating much-needed office and collaborative space, TEN Arquitectos recognized a further opportunity. As a firm for whom form does not just follow function ? but is, rather, the most perfect and precise expression of it, they opted to create a nexus: a building with amenities and opportunities to engage the entire campus population, serving as both anchor and core.

?If we create architecture that neglects its context and does nothing to activate its surroundings, then we haven?t actually created architecture at all. We?ve merely created a building.? says Enrique Norten, Founder of TEN Arquitectos.

Set to rise on the main artery of Lewis Field?the center?s primary campus, and a recently minted historic district?the two...