The "aluminum can" mentioned by GeekSnap is really the
Weisman Art Museum, which was built in
1993. It looks more like a crumpled up
ball of foil to me, but it is really a practice run by
Frank Gehry for the design of the
Guggenheim Museum in
Bilbao,
Spain.
The Weisman Museum is covered in a silvery, metallic skin and has lots of geometric shapes, which are actually dormers and cupolas, with windows and everything, sticking out at odd angles from the building, letting in asymmetrical swathes and arcs of sunlight. The building overlooks the Mississippi River, and is visible from both the East Bank and West Bank campuses.
(I realize this should probably have its own node.)