Museum design connects art, architecture, and nature
Three recent examples show how landscape views enhance exhibit space.
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Three recent examples show how landscape views enhance exhibit space.
When it opens in late 2025, the Home Court will be the first completed space on the Obama Presidential Center campus in Chicago. Located on the southwest corner of the 19.3-acre Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park, the Home Court will be the largest gathering space on the campus. Renderings recently have been released of the 45,000-sf multipurpose sports facility and events space designed by Moody Nolan.
Kansas City’s new Sobela Ocean Aquarium is a world-class facility home to nearly 8,000 animals in 34 habitats ranging from small tanks to a giant 400,000-gallon shark tank.
In Norfolk, Va., the Chrysler Museum of Art’s Perry Glass Studio, an educational facility for glassmaking, will open a new addition in May. That will be followed by a renovation of the existing building scheduled for completion in December.
The museum is conceived as a series of abstracted forms made up of two main structures, one administrative and one exhibit.
The redesign of the 28,000-sf building is prioritizing flexibility, openness, and connectivity.
Gold Award: The Smithsonian Institution’s newest museum is a story of historical and construction resolve.
744 LEGO bricks are used to recreate the famous Wright design, including the 1992 addition.
Many museum staff are resistant to the idea of open offices.
The installation will showcase 200 years worth of unrealized Big Apple projects via original drawings, renderings, newly commissioned models, and 3D visualizations.
Amaze Design designed the 10,000-sf space.
The design comprises three buildings set in the public space of Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side.
The wooden façade is a link to the history of the area as a wood market.
Owners would like to get more value from their exterior spaces. One architecture firm details how it made that happen for the new Whitney Museum.