Fort Worth, Texas
Designed by world-renowned Japanese architect, Tadao Ando, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth features massive planar walls of architectural cast-in-place concrete. Forty-foot-high transparent walls of glass framed in metal surround the concrete envelope, providing magnificent public circulation areas from which to view the surrounding building, the large reflecting pond, outdoor sculpture, and the landscaped grounds. Immense cantilevered cast-concrete roofs shade the building's exterior and accommodate the introduction of natural light into the gallery. Supporting the concrete roof slabs are five forty-foot-tall concrete Y-shaped columns.
The architectural concrete was provided by our subsidiary, Redi-Mix Concrete (formerly Beall Concrete), and varnished to a glassy finish by Linbeck Construction Company. The architect credits his success with concrete to well-crafted, watertight forms into which the ready-mixed concrete is poured. The 153,000 square-foot building, which embodies the pure, unadorned elements of a modern work of art, is comprised of five long, flat-roofed pavilions situated on a 1.5 acre reflecting pool. This striking building was started in July, 2001 and opened to the public in late 2002.
Concrete Volume: 8,500 cubic yards