Kuehm Malvezzi designs Montreal Insectarium to subvert "museological norms and expectations"

Architecture studios Kuehn Malvezzi, Pelletier de Fontenay and Jodoin Lamarre Pratte Architectes have created an insect zoo and museum in a glazed sawtooth-roof building with interior spaces that emulate the experience of being a bug.
The Montreal Insectarium is part of Space for Life, a science museum district within Montreal's Olympic Park that also houses a planetarium and botanical garden.
A sawtooth roof tops The Montreal Insectarium
Founded in 1990, the insectarium contains habitats for li