This is F&M College’s Winter Visual Arts Center which opened in 2020. In 2001 Time magazine named Steven Holl as America's Best Architect, for "buildings that satisfy the spirit as well as the eye." His offices are based in New York and China. His firm has designed buildings in Finland, Japan, the Netherlands, China, Norway, Denmark, France, Korea, Lebanon, U.K., Taiwan, and Austria.
Architect Holl’s first sketches for this building resemble Ben Franklin’s kite resting in the campus trees. (Ben Franklin is a founding father of F&M College.) The building has translucent glass walls, with in-wall trusses like a box kite.
The walls curve inward as if to provide space for the trees that surround it. A ramp leads inward, like an homage to Le Corbusier’s ramp at Harvard’s Visual Arts Center.
The building is named for Susan and Benjamin Winter. The couple helped fund this $28-million art center with their $10-million gift. This building secures Lancaster’s standing on the international stage of world-class architecture.

  Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect who became a Father of Modern Architecture.
His landmark Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University is the only building he designed in North America. It was completed in 1963.  Le Corbusier designed the building’s ramp as a concrete centerpiece, a promenade architecturale.
Steven Holl’s ramp here at F&M ascends upward like a concrete homage to Le Corbusier. The ramp pays tribute to one of the most influential architects of the 20th century, Le Corbusier.