I was really pleased to have a chance to see the Beyeler Foundation, one of the great smaller museums of the world, on the outskirts of Basel looking out over fields. The building was designed by Renzo Piano and opened in 1997: rather classical with red sandstone columns at either end of a temple-like structure; filled with bleached oak floors and the best quality of natural daylight diffused from the ceiling. There is also a quality of it being inside out, with views out into the countryside and the garden, like the de Menil Museum in Houston:-





