The Robert Olnick Pavilion — the second building on Magazzino’s campus — was designed by the Spanish architects Alberto Campo Baeza and Miguel Quismondo. The pavilion has a humble layout that highlights industrial materials and an aesthetically neutral environment that provides an additional 13,000 square feet of new exhibition space.

The purpose of the lighting design was for luminaires to disappear and perfectly blend with the minimal architecture. Galleries are softly and uniformly lit, with low-glare luminaires installed in tracks for full flexibility. The light sources used, combined with their spacing and carefully calibrated location from the gallery walls, allow for a shadow free art wall illumination. The cafe and shop have millwork integrated lighting to celebrate the intended relaxing nature of this space, where one can admire the landscape.

The sunken garden, the exterior extension of the basement multi-purpose room, acts as a space of congregation extending the experience from the inside out. The lighting emphasizes the relationship between the interior and exterior and creates a dramatic backdrop to the space.

Low-level and low-glare step lights are installed around the exterior perimeter of the building to provide soft path illumination, and nighttime security to remain respectful of the wild landscape of the campus.

Architect: Alberto Campo Baeza & Miguel Quismondo, AIA
Location: Cold Spring, NY Completion
Date: September 2023
Built area: 13,000 sq.ft.
Client: Magazzino Italian Art Foundation
Construction Manager: Miguel Quismondo with Jacobo Mingorance
Project Architect / Project Manager: Jacobo Mingorance
Collaborators: Ignacio Aguirre López, Alejandro Cervilla García, Tommaso Campiotti, Juan Carlos Bragado, Ignacio de Silóniz, Alfonso Guajardo-Fajardo Cruz, María Pérez de Camino Díez, David Vera García, Sara Fernández Trucios, Luca Redaelli, Gloria Saá García, William Mulvihill, Gloria Saa
Structural Engineer: Michael P. Carr, P.E. María Concepción Pérez Gutiérrez
MEP Engineers: CES-Consulting Engineering Services Engineers
Lighting Consultant: Map Design Studio
Cost Consultant: Slocum Construction Consulting, Inc Photography: Javier Callejas, William Mulvihill, Marco Anelli