Inside the museum the two exterior materials continue their presence with concrete walls supporting perpendicular mesh walls, as well as plaster walls for the display of artworks. The mesh helps to break up the possible monotony of an all-concrete building, but its effects as a light-filtering screen are not used to their fullest extent, since most of the screens wrap concrete walls and are therefore flat and opaque. Regardless, the interior is remarkably open and light-filled with diagonal views created by the perpendicular placement of the walls, the upper walls resting on the first floor walls in a few places (click for diagram).

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis