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.
Part studio, part shared workplace, part lab, and part professional development program, NEW INC connects design with technology, the arts with the market, students with seasoned practitioners, and the museum with the world.
The firm’s design concept makes use of the museum’s site, turning it into a bustling, well-connected waterfront hub.
Overlooking the Pearl River in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, the cluster of museums will be designed by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, gmp Architekten, and Thomas Herzog Architekten.
The new gallery will repurpose a soon-to-be-vacant flour mill.
The museum's developers hope the new gallery will enrich Sydney’s eastern cultural precinct.
According to the firm’s founding partner, Elizabeth Diller, the design was inspired by the movement of athletes, as it “spirals up and outwards from a central atrium.”
Entertainment-based experiences, personal journeys, and community engagement are among the key themes that cultural institutions must embrace to stay relevant, write Gensler's Diana Lee and Richard Jacob.
A custom-developed App engages an international public in the selection process.
The new museum near Charleston, S.C., will archive the history of the nation's highest military honorees.
The newly opened Shanghai Natural History Museum, designed by Perkins+Will’s Global Design Director Ralph Johnson, mimics the shape of a nautilus shell, and features natural elements throughout.