Cube 4

Sammlung Goetz Munich, Munich, Germany, 1992 designed by Herzog & de Meuron

The gallery is a freestanding volume situated within a park-like garden of birches and conifers between the street and a house from the 1960s. A timber configuration rests on a reinforced-concrete base of the same dimension that is half buried so that only its upper glazed perimeter is visible from the outside. A similar matt glass strip surrounds the timber volume at the uppermost section, admitting diffuse glare-free daylight from a height of 4 meters into the exhibition spaces. -- architect's web site

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Source: Architektur-Fotografie Ulrich Schwarz

Youth Centre Amsterdam-Osdorp, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2011 designed by Atelier Kempe Thill

The realized building consists of the simple stacking of two – diametrically opposed – concepts of space. The ground floor level is designed as a flat sandwich-space, which opens up completely to the surroundings thanks to the glazing on all sides. On the upper floor is the Community Hall. In order to realise the desired multi-functionality and neutrality, it has a fully closed façade and forms a hermetic and introspective space. -- ArchDaily