The Smithsonian Institution has opened to the public the new Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard by Sir Norman Foster inside the Smithsonian's American Art Museum, the building is better known as the Patent Office. This is another of the world's repeated solutions, and Foster, in this specific case, has been typecast and become somewhat pedestrian because of his previous Great Court at the British Museum.
This time around the courtyard is sandwiched between sheets of water, the glass canopy ripples and undulates as a liquid surface, and the floor has a curious water feature. The granite floor is darkened by a very thin sheet of water with an imperceptible slope that you can walk on and across. The result is definitely beautiful.
The courtyard's main purpose is to give the Museum a space that it can rent and use for its own activities.
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