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The new museum building designed by Sir David Adjaye for the Ruby City Art Centre in San Antonio, Texas, presents itself in a rich red. Almost 200 Parscan spotlights from ERCO highlight both the contemporary art and the sculptural architecture. He described his new building in San Antonio, built for the Linda Pace Foundation, as a “little temple of art,” and “a kind of very shy building” that is constantly hiding and revealing its face.”
David Adjaye is responsible for the architecture of the Linda Pace Foundation's art centre along with his London architectural practice. The foundation goes back to Linda Pace, heiress of a Texan sauce empire, collector of contemporary art and herself an artist. Before her death in 2007, a dream allegedly bestowed upon her the vision of a red building with high towers for accommodating her collection of art. After waking up, she sketched the building and commissioned David Adjaye with the architectural interpretation of the drawing.
The construction, now inaugurated 12 years later in San Antonio, Texas, has floor space of 930 square metres. Its iridescent facade of terracotta-like concrete panels in three shades of red, developed and produced in Mexico City, is intended to ward off the heat and be simultaneously reminiscent of the loamy soil of the region.
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