架构师提供的文本描述。赢得竞争，为MCA丹佛创建一个新的建筑，使这个项目Adjaye Associates的第一个公共委员会在美国。有2万平方英尺的展览、教育和演讲空间、书店和屋顶花园，供户外艺术使用，设计背后的意图是它的建筑是“支持而不是定义博物馆的使命”。

Text description provided by the architects. Winning the competition to create a new building for MCA Denver, made this project Adjaye Associates’ first public commission in the US. With 20,000 square feet of exhibition, education and lecture spaces, bookshop and a roof garden area for outdoor art, the intention behind the design is for its architecture to ‘support rather than define the museum’s mission’.

由于没有永久的藏品，博物馆举办了参观展览的活动，因此，博物馆内部有简短的具体规定的灵活性。

With no permanent collection, the museum is host to a programme of visiting exhibitions and for this reason the brief specified internal flexibility.

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建筑物作为一个容器，其内容受到相当大的变化，因此这些领域的重要性是基于使用有限数量的单色和纹理。

The building acts as a receptacle whose contents are subject to considerable variation, hence the materiality of these areas is based on the use of a limited number of monochromes and textures.

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建成后，MCA丹佛获得了能源和环境设计领域的黄金领导地位，使其成为全国第一个获得LEED认证的当代艺术博物馆；开创可持续性，并在减少能源消耗、温室气体排放和原材料使用方面发挥领导作用。

On completion, MCA Denver achieved the distinction of Gold Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED), making it the nation’s first LEED certified contemporary art museum; pioneering sustainability and taking a leadership role in the reduction of energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and use of raw materials.

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