The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA) in Ohio, US, has announced that its new building in the Uptown district of University Circle will open on 8 October.

London, UK-based Farshid Moussavi Architecture are behind the design of the new facility, which aims to provide a catalyst for "creativity and growth" in the surrounding neighbourhood.

The 34,000sq ft (3,159sq m) building is 44 per cent larger than MOCA's current rented site and has been designed with both financial and environmental sustainability in mind.

Visitors to the four-storey complex will enter into an atrium that demonstrates the shape and structure of the design, which rises from a hexagonal base to a square top.

A 6,000sq ft (557sq m) gallery will be located on the top floor of the new MOCA building, which will have no fixed dividing walls to allow for a range of configurations.

A MOCA spokesperson said: "The structure will demonstrate that a museum expansion need not be large in scale to be ambitious in all respects.

"Devised for both environmental and fiscal sustainability, the design is at once technically inventive, visually stunning and highly practical."

Details: www.mocacleveland.org