Grace Farms Foundation Unveils SANAA's "River" Building

The Glass House may be the most famous architectural site in New Canaan, CT (the subject of this issue’s Insightfeature), but the town is getting plenty of attention for the September 24 unveiling of the design for Grace Farm Foundation’s “River” building, designed by SANAA, the firm of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. The low, curling building recalls the Pritzker Prize-winning duo’s 2009 design for London’s Serpentine Gallery, an open-air pavilion winding its way through the trees. The River building will include a sanctuary space for Grace Community Church, a library, a dining room, a gymnasium, and children’s spaces, and it will sit on the Foundation’s 75-acre site amid a landscape designed by Philadelphia’s OLIN.