Nature and Culture Museum of Wisconsin
Located at the edge of Milwaukee’s urban center and near the newly re-invigorated entertainment district, the Nature & Culture Museum of Wisconsin is poised to create a flurry of activity, attracting a wide range of visitors with dynamic interior spaces and landscaped outdoor spaces that invite people to explore the diverse natural and cultural history […]
Edelman Fossil Park & Museum of Rowan University
Just as the site itself offers a window into the earth’s deep past and the devastation of mass extinction, the highly sustainable, carbon net-zero building looks to the earth’s future and the critical importance of planetary stewardship in the Anthropocene. Thomas J. Wong, AIA, Design Partner https://player.vimeo.com/video/626669388?autoplay=0&loop=0&byline=0&title=0&portrait=0 The museum is situated within an active dinosaur […]
Shanghai Astronomy Museum
https://player.vimeo.com/video/573218601?autoplay=0&loop=0&byline=0&title=0&portrait=0 In linking the new Museum to both scientific purpose and to the celestial references of buildings throughout history, the exhibits and architecture will communicate more than scientific content: they will illuminate what it means to be human in a vast and largely unknown universe. Thomas Wong, Design Partner The monumental new museum creates an […]
University of Michigan, Biological Sciences Building and Museum of Natural History
In an unprecedented coupling of an academic biological science program with a museum of natural history the Michigan Biological Science Building opens up the world of science to the world via the intertwining of the public and the academic sciences. The building was designed to put science on display and encourage collegial interactions between science […]
Yangtze River Estuary Chinese Sturgeon Nature Preserve
https://player.vimeo.com/video/321529960?autoplay=0&loop=0&byline=0&title=0&portrait=0 A complex program includes a series of interior and exterior pools for breeding and raising both species mimicking their natural migration into waters of varying size and salinity, as well as facilities dedicated to their research and reintegration to their natural habitat. The project makes the important work of the institution visible to visitors […]
New York Hall of Science
Though art and science are often portrayed as divergent, mechanisms of perception are integral to both. Architecture is a tool to shape the public’s relationship to the Hall of Science, maximizing access to the exhibitions within. Todd Schliemann, Design Partner https://player.vimeo.com/video/136231148?autoplay=0&loop=0&byline=0&title=0&portrait=0 The power of this dynamic ensemble derives from the juxtaposition of forms and materials. […]
Natural History Museum of Utah
https://player.vimeo.com/video/326676101?autoplay=0&loop=0&byline=0&title=0&portrait=0 Utah’s natural environment memorializes the story of how human beings interpreted their world and their land over one thousand years ago. The material quality of the building’s exterior roots it in its context, recalling the importance of landscape in Utah’s human and natural history. Todd Schliemann, Design Partner Utah’s singular landscape and the ways […]
American Museum of Natural History, Rose Center for Earth and Space
The new Rose Center brings us face to face with something commensurate to our capacity for wonder… this is a mature modern building, a structure unafraid of revealing the deep roots from which modern architecture arose. Herbert Muschamp, Architecture Critic The building is designed as a visible expression of the science it contains. Transparency of […]