The new home of the Poetry Foundation, located in the River North neighborhood of Chicago, is comprised of a building in dialogue with a garden. The garden space is created through erosion of an implied volume as described by the L-shaped property boundary of the site, resulting in a relationship whereby the enclosed building spaces interlock with the exterior spaces of the garden. In this manner, the garden is implied as another“room” of the building, and part of the building’s slowly-unfolding spatial sequence, which is revealed space by space as a poem is revealed, line by line.

▼锌材构成了最外围的墙壁，the outer layer of zinc cladding becomes perforated

▼临街近景，street view