Le Meridien | Abu Dhabi | UAE | Woods Bagot

A planned redevelopment of the existing Le Meridien Hotel will transform the waterfront property into an exciting nexus for Abu Dhabi’s tourist club precinct. Located adjacent to Abu Dhabi Mall, the site faces Sowah Island’s new central business district and the recently completed Abu Dhabi Stock Exchange, developed by Mubadala. The 140 000 m2 redevelopment anticipates a new bridge connecting Abu Dhabi Island and Sowah Island that will divide the property into two sites.

The competition entry proposes replacing the existing hotel with a new mixed-use center comprising two hotels and a serviced apartment building, each 25-stories tall, as well as an 11-storey office building. A four-storey podium connects the hotel and activates the lower levels through retail, restaurant and marina programs.....more

Yangtze Star | Shanghai | China | Sparch

Location: Shanghai, China
Project Status: Design Competition
GFA (sqm): 58,696
Client: SIIC Dongtan Investment & Development (Holdings) Co., Ltd.

The Yangtze STAR is designed to reduce negative impacts on the Environment, and enhance the health and comfort of residents and visitors to Dongtan. Our basic objectives are to reduce consumption of non-renewable resources, minimize waste, and create a healthy, productive environments. The STAR is a holistic response to our surroundings, a clean building supplying clean energy.

What the STAR offers is a visually stunning campus-park with, at its heart, an energy station able to use a multiplicity of fuels including waste or grown biomass, and waste streams from Dongtan City together with wind-power and solar energy. The energy station will be designed in a future-proofed context, with in-built flexibility to exploit developments in energy technology.

The Yangtze STAR is inspired by the meandering journey of this great river, reflecting the story of China’s History, Culture and Industry. A central ‘River of Energy’ flows through the site, home to the Visitor Attraction Islands and Greenhouse of the Future. Seeds dispersed by this ‘River’ become the Energy Generators, feeding the needs of the new Eco City........more

Macau Studio City | Macau | China | Sparch

Location: Macau, China
Project Status: Feasibility Study
GFA (sqm): 613.000
Client: Cyber One Agents Ltd

The casino serves as a hub for the whole complex. All other programmes are directly linked to and can be accessed from the central casino space. The typology of the hangar serves a model here for an internalised environment that affords spatial excitement, incites a sense of exploration and provides orientation within the complex. The TWA terminal at JFK, and Ken Adam’s film sets for James Bond are relevant precedents to such a space.

The casino, retail, hotel facilities, theatres, and exhibition centre are enveloped by an undulating roof surface that forms an accessible park. This park provides an elevated urban space, high level linkage between the programmes, as well as the hotel’s outdoor facilities.

The hotel and apartments towers connect to the shopping mall and casino below through a dramatic 150 meter tall twisting void. This void both provide light deep into the lower retail spaces as well as creating, physical and visual links between the conventionally disjoint towers and the podium.

The roof structure of the landscape is supported by depressions within the surface forming circular groups of columns. The “eyes” within the landscape provide light down to the podium spaces, and may serve as outdoor courtyard spaces.....more

Zhang Jia Bang Culture Street | Shanghai | China | Sparch

Location: Shanghai, China
Project Status: Design Proposal
GFA (sqm): 13.180
Client: Good Faith Enterprises Limited

Zhang Jia Bang - Street of Culture is a positive fusion of architecture, landscape and urban design into a new landmark destination in Shanghai that serves as a fitting memorial to the creative inspiration of the internationally renowned artist Chen Yifei who commissioned the project.

The design proposal strives to find a balance between the large scale residential developments to the west of the site and the landscaped green environment of the river running parallel to the project. In its essence, the architecture and landscape of the Street of Culture act as a foil between the adjacent development and the river, creating a protected, calm and transformed environment for pedestrian users of the site. Artists’ workshops and cultural institutions are located in a number of smaller pavilions with aspect to the river....more

Penang Global City Center | Penang | Malaysia | Asymptote Architecture

LOCATION: Penang, Malaysia
SIZE: 1,000,000 sq. m

 DATE: 2006

The design of the Penang Global City Center (PGCC) was unveiled on September 12, 2007 in Penang, Malaysia in a ceremony conducted by Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Asymptote’s design for the PGCC comprises two iconic, sixty-story towers housing luxury residential units and five-star hotels, the Penang Performing Arts Center (PenPAC), a high-end retail and entertainment complex, an observatory, a world-class convention center and a vast public arena in the form of a plinth that serves as an entrance to the PGCC and connects it to the city beyond.....more

Jalisco State Public Library | Guadalajara | Mexico | Asymptote Architecture

LOCATION: Guadalajara, Mexico
SIZE: 25,000 sq.m

DATE: 2005
Asymptote’s proposal for the Jalisco State Public Library in Guadalajara, Mexico is an elegant and minimal architectural volume suspended above a vibrant new entrance plaza. The building is supported by luminescent, glass-enclosed structural “trees” that also join the north and south wings, the two main components of the library. On the south side of the building, facing the main square, is the animated façade of the “solid wing” where all of the public areas are located.....more

Almere Poort Supermarket | Almere | the Netherlands | RAU

start: 2008
gross floor area: 8000 m2
location: Almere
function: retail, housingcomplex, park
performance: energy-autonome and CO2 free shopping centre and adaptable housing: self supporting in climate control and energy supply


2008: Initiated by the Dutch Municipality of Almere, a sustainable community complex comprising a supermarket, shops and adaptable housing for senior-citizens is currently being developed in the ‘Columbuskwartier’ (Columbus Quarter) neighbourhood. Columbus Quarter is part of the city’s evolving ‘Almere Poort’ district.

Almere was established in 1975 and is the largest city in the Dutch Province of Flevoland, a province entirely reclaimed from the sea during the 1950s and 1960s. This young city is Europe’s fastest growing urban area and currently has 185.000 inhabitants.....more

Vanke's Valley Housing | Shenzen | China | RAU

start: 2008
gross floor area: 48.000 m2
location: Shenzen
function: luxury residences in nature reserve
performance: net zero energy residences

On the intercession of the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, RAU is advising a multi-billion Chinese developer on a project that would place 120 homes within a crucial water extraction area inhabited by protected species in an ecologically responsible and energy-neutral manner.

Shenzhen is just north of Hong Kong. After Shanghai, it is the busiest port in China and has grown over the last 30 years from a sleepy fishing village to a high-tech financial centre in tropical southern China. To the north of the city is a river basin landscape. Evacuated since 1998, it has a rich biodiversity and is crucial as a supply of drinking water for the local population.

China Vanke Co., Ltd., a listed company for 18 years, is the largest housing developer in China. As of 2007, this company managed 31 million m² of land (11 million of which was already residential area) and had another 42 million in the pipeline. Vanke has an agreement with the local government to build 120 homes over this extremely vulnerable valley.

The solution was pole houses: pre-fab houses on a concrete platform (the basic construction site) floating on a single pole above the landscape. Tilted to provide their own shade, they are also cooled naturally by an updraft provided by a patio. Their ‘green’ roofs are covered with vegetation and solar panels. Accessed by a single road under which water and fauna can move with no obstructions, this plan minimises the loss of crucial vegetation both during construction and in use.....more

BMW Event and Delivery Center | Munich | Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes

The overall form of the building is that of a dynamic wave with an accent on the Forum. the roof is the main functional and formal design feature, uniting technology, dynamics and aesthetics. Echoing the rectangualr pattern that structures the site, the building faces the BMW Tower, the Museum and the factory premises. While in phase 2 the overall concept was maintained, the internal structure has been further developed. In addition, a new entrance solution has been developed in which the forecourt slopes toward the entrance. The cantilevered roof protrudes from the body shell, thus protecting the main entrances.

The Olympic Park's ground modulation has been continued up to the buildings's west facade. Structurally the "wave" form has been chieved by the use of a suspended cable with a span of approx. 80 m and a curvilinear cantilevered beam with a 25 m span. The slope of the forecourt continues inside "gardens of the five continents" that symbolize the worldwide BMW network subdivide the overall volume. The Hall and BMW-Premiere are connected to each other by means of footbridges and passerelles. The brightness of the light means to evoke the experience in a sunlit forest interspersed with clearings.....more

BMW Event and Delivery Center Competition | Morphosis

The Event Center for BMW focuses on the resolution of critical issues of urbanism, technology, and environmental sustainability in alignment with the company’s core values. By overlaying the multiple circulation exigencies on the site, a complex pattern of infrastructure emerges which is further informed by an urban strategy pulled from the site’s existing grid. The site plan emphasizes connections between BMW, the Olympic Park, and the city of Munich, while the structure creates a new, instantly recognizable urban landmark.

The principle space, which functions as a proscenium for the transference of car to new owner, meets the street as a transparent volume. As new automobiles spiral up from below the ground and move out into a void in a thick, glass wall, their motion animates the building. The theatricality of the building dynamically defines the corner site, while incisions in the building reveal views of the BMW tower and the mountains and city of Munich beyond. This project weaves disparate parts of the existing urban fabric together with fluid, large-scale gestures, evocative of movement transforming the BMW Event Center into an extension of the adjacent park and integrating it with the surrounding buildings, open spaces, and traffic facilities.

Advanced building systems, kinetic plan elements, and new circulations paths and bridges reflect the legacy of technological innovation and dynamism at BMW. Efficient and responsible use of natural resources are achieved via the integration of energy saving lighting, ventilation, and solar heat generation while an 8,000 square meter occupiable earth roof acts as an insulating element and connects the building seamlessly with the park to the west. Emerging from its context, the building is an extension of nature — appropriate to BMW’s ecological aspirations for the future of the automobile....more

BMW Event & Delivery Center | Asymptote Architecture

LOCATION: Munich, Germany
SIZE: 15,000 sq.m

DATE: 2001
The proposed BMW Event and Delivery Center in Munich, Germany architecturally embodies the sophistication and advanced technology associated with BMW. The building itself is seen as an extension of the corporate identity and progressive design of the products inside. The interior is a fluid space that creates a dynamic, theatrical event out of the design, production and purchasing of BMW products.....more

Nuragic Art Museum | Cagliari | Italy | ARCHEA Associati

ARCHEA PROJECT WITH Franz Prati and MDU Architetti
LOCATION: Cagliari
PROJECT: Museum
CLIENT: Autonomous Region of Sardinia
STRUCTURES: Studio Chessa
SYSTEMS: Milano Progetti SpA
PLAN: 2006 competition - jury mention
COST :€ 36,000,000,00
BUILT AREA: 12.050 sq m

The project site is located on the fascinating seaside of Cagliari, in a suburban area occupied by various structures (stadium, low-income housing, fishing canal harbour). The museum described by the competition announcement has been translated in a project concept which involves architecture, town planning and landscape design. The seascape has been remodelled to give the site an identity, within which context the building acts as landmark. In fact, it consists of a monolith suspended on an artificial dune: the 7 floors of functional spaces (storage areas, laboratories, guest house, auditorium, bookshop, offices, exhibition area, panoramic roof terrace with cafe and library) pivot on a large cavea, a kind of covered square which continues below the building, accessible in every part, connected to the path along the shore. The trajectory of the latter is accentuated by routes leading to a series of collective facilities, with respect to which the museum acts as connecting void and landmark. Ascending from the sea, the dune rises to a level of +8.5 m, outlining the large square where the main entrance is located, to then descend gently towards the tree-covered parking area.........more

Park Of Music And Culture | Florence | Italy | ARCHEA Associati

LOCATION: Firenze ,Italy
PROJECT: theatre and auditorium
CLIENT: Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri
STRUCTURES: Favero&Milan Ingegneria
SYSTEMS:StudioTi
PLAN:2007
COST:€ 80,000,000,00
BUILT AREA: 60,000 sq m
CONTRACTOR: Gia.Fi. Costruzioni S.p.A.
The railway area of Firenze Porta al Prato is delimited on one side by the former Leopolda Station (location of cultural events) and by the underground station – currently under way – and on the other, by the Parco delle Cascine. The vicinity of the current Municipal Theatre (500 m), the hinge between the historical centre and territorial road network, and the Park’s leisure activities, determine the both cultural and playful vocation which the competition proposes to improve with the construction of the new head offices of the Florentine Maggio Musicale. The project is to include: a lyrical theatre to seat 2,000 people, an auditorium with 1,000 seats, including an open-air cavea, technical stage-set workshops, commercial activities with relative services and public spaces. The project tackles the significance of the architectural object not just in terms of structure and function, but also in terms of art and city life: the works of the master Giuliano Vangi show how architecture and sculpture are perceived as elements of a single space, as in an ancient, Renaissance town; and the architectural symbols of perception and qualification derive from the study of how the area is visually approached. The required functions are articulated in a fluid, sculptural form, which identifies each urban rapport in a plastic continuum of projections, indentations and variations in level: it is not structured through hierarchical views, but through focal points and cross axes, presenting itself with conformations and perspective links, and a variety of functions.

The line of approach, along which the access to the underground car park and pedestrian underpass are located, coincides with the access way to the historical centre and with the road network, including that of public transport. It becomes a both functional and formal axis: shops, eateries and leisure centres lure the visitor along the architectural promenade towards the foyer and music spaces. The latter consist of two cantilevered foreparts, which cover respectively the terraces of the open-air cavea – projection of the concert hall – and part of the square beneath the auditorium. The elements develop in a crescendo, which culminates in the 40 m-high scene tower. The façade of building, articulated in such a way, overlooking 300 m of public urban space, contains a much sought-after perceptive value within. The stone blocks, enhanced by the whitish-green enamelled terracotta cladding, a historic memory of the Florentine Romanesque period and of the Tuscan ceramics tradition, are opened up with glazed surfaces, through which the building gradually reveals its internal articulations...more

MILANOFIORI 2000 | Milan | ARCHEA Associati

LOCATION: Milano Italia
PROJECT: residential - commercial
CLIENT: Milanofiori 2000 S.r.l.
STRUCTURES: Intertecno
SYSTEMS:Intertecno
PLAN:2007
REALISATION:under construction
COST:€ 29.000.000,00
BUILT AREA: 24.848 sq m

The design of a building in the centre of the Milanofiori 2000 area is based on the indications of the master plan prepared by EEA Architects, in which a selection of Italian firms have been asked to participate. The complexity of the project lies in the particular conditions of the plot which is “embedded” between the high level of the artificial ground – which covers the parking areas below, thus creating the new central urban square – and the lower level of the park. The building also acts as backdrop, barrier between the residential area and the shopping area and takes the form of a tall urban front capable of collecting and containing the visual sphere of the public space and the collective life. The density and overall volume of the project is therefore “necessary” even if it proves to be decidedly problematic due to the proportions and overall dimensions. This difficulty has been interpreted as a key of interpretation of the project, which has been re-modulated and “scaled” through a subdivision into two lower units, one with three floors and another with six, superimposed but somewhat shifted. The building is consequently coherent with the tall office blocks with ten or eleven floors designed by Van Egeraat, while the fragmentation make the building reacquire, architecturally speaking, a dimension that is more proportionate to the park and the buildings in front of it......more

Centre Culturel et Administratif de Montreal | WORKac

This competition entry is for a public building that combined offices for the Provincial Government, a 1200-seat Concert Hall, and a Conservatory. Our project exploits this association between government and culture with singular building which maintains discrete identities for the different programs.

The three institutions are organized into parallel ‘strips,’ each entered from a different street. These strips are fused into a single loop of interconnected spaces which accommodates each program’s uniqueness through variation in height. At the heart of this loop is the Concert Hall, capped with a glass roof. Capitalizing on the coincidence between the symphony season and the winter months, snow and ice are encouraged to collect on the glass roof, providing additional acoustic insulation.....more

Landsbanki Bank Headquarters | Reykjavik, Iceland | WORKac

WORKac was one of five invited teams to propose a new Headquarters for Landsbanki Bank in Reykjavik, Iceland. Our proposal was conceived of as a historical, urban, architectural and programmatic connector to knit together the old fabric of the city center with the scale of new developments at the city’s edge.


The building is formed from a series of programmatic strips stacked to create strategic voids and shared elevated gardens. On the inside, the strips allow for maximum flexibility and provide ideal northern exposure for the offices while also protecting outdoor spaces from the northern winds. Inspired by the interwoven patterns of Icelandic art, the façade combines structure with fenestration......more

Yagoona Town Centre By DRAW

“The 2009 About Face competition was focused on the theme of socially responsive architecture. Commendation and Peer Prizes were awarded to Sydney architects DRAW… DRAW’s design transformed disused and neglected land into functional and valuable public space at Yagoona Town Centre.” (About Face Jury 2009)
A new civic ground plane stitches each side of the tracks together . A generous bespoke brickwork finger extends into the park providing access and a place to sit and watch the match.
North facing garden rooms housed in the facade provide micro social opportunities for residents. Visual connection extends from the corridors through these garden rooms and out over the surrounding suburbs. A filigree of brick screen mediates between harsh sun and dappled shade.
A repeat condition of under-utilised residual lands can be found around many outer suburb railway stations. In these areas we see latent potential for exploration of a new housing and renewal typology......more

Nuilding | Rotterdam | Maxwan

(new + economy = newconomy: new + building = nuilding) A client approached us with a request for the design of a 50'000 m2 storage building for cars (showrooms) and computers (servers) on a site adjacent to a highway. For its power supply, it would rely on an built-in 40 mW power plant. The site of the new building lies next to the A20 ring road around Rotterdam, in walking distance of our office. We are asked to design our own skyline. Cars are often put on display in glass boxes on sites bordering highways. The idea is that passers-by get a good look at the goods behind the curtain wall, yet in general the glass reflects more than it lets through. Our proposal is a radical mutant of this worn-out typology: glass facades not parallel to the highway, but perpendicular to the sightlines of the approaching drivers: the cars not behind glass, but on balconies: the curtain wall of sloping mirror glass reflecting and protecting the cars. The development of the building came to a halt when the NASDAQ crashed. The design was exhibited at the 2005 Venice Architecture Biennale. Rumor has it that the client sold the plans to a group of Chinese investors.....moreCredits:

program: 50'000m2 server hotel, 20'000m2 car mall, 2'000 m2 offices, 4'500 m2 energy center
client ArteDost CV project development
country: Netherlands
city:Rotterdam
total floor space:76'500 m2
partner in charge:Rients Dijkstra
team leader:Hiroki Matsuura
team:Verena Balz, Martijn Bus, Nadia Casabella, Kersten Geers, Wooill Kim, Ulrich Kirchoff, Eva Pfannes, Martin Saarinen, Harm te Velde

Real Zaragoza New Football Stadium | Francisco Mangado

A football stadium is a large “object” with an infrastructural character; a huge structure, imposing in scale, that serves a specific purpose. The objective should be to make it more like a building. By this we mean more urban, more attentive to what goes on around it. Only if it is in the middle of nothing can it ignore the surroundings. But in this case, in the outskirts of Zaragoza, there are connections with the city, constructions of diverse uses. An urban structure exists. It is up to the large plinth to do the job of adapting the object—the actual stadium, the bowl—to the city. The plinth absorbs all the complexity, both programmatic and functional, that a stadium accumulates. As the most civic part of the building, the plinth acts as a nexus between its urban, more human, more graspable scale on one hand, and its larger, more distant structural scale. The plinth becomes an urban façade with possible commercial or institutional uses incorporated in it, but it also turns into ramps and planes for people entering the stadium en masse, and it absorbs the grade differences existing in the lot. More complementary than contradictory to this focus on the plinth’s role in urban adaptation—a very common recourse in the history of large architectures endowed with the capacity to signify and symbolize—is the project’s recognition of the fact that football stadium nowadays have the capacity to represent and qualify a given zone. The stadium itself, the clear-cut bowl, in formal expression much lighter that the plinth it sits on, will appear in the distant horizon but also in urban proximity as an exponent of intentions to create architectural meaning........more

Sports Center and SPA-Pool | Saint Moritz, Switzerland | Francisco Mangado

Saint-Moritz is more a landscape than a city. It has the grandeur of nature, the omnipresence of its mountains. Surely in a deliberate way, the city adapts to the immensity and beauty of the environment.

The swimming pool building is situated at the perimeter of the city core, where there are no references to urban schemes or built structures. One might say that the building stands alone, with no built realm to protect it, in a place where it is isolated, facing the mountains themselves. These conditions are attractive and suggestive. Why not make the most of them?

So the building’s section starts out by tracing itself as a prolongation of the outline of the mountains, a continuation of the landscape. And it comes across as something that extends the mountain profile into the city.

Hence, from the moment the outline of the mountains and the section of the building merge into a single line, the building presents itself as a topography and blends into the landscape of Saint-Moritz.

The design’s “mountainous” section gives rise to a large space, a huge roof containing all the pools and other facilities. A large rich space where every pool area, depending on its particular function—the children’s area which has to be acoustically insulated but visually controlled, the diving area which required higher ceilings...—has its own unique space.

The grand space, divided into zones by glass but unitary in conception, projects outward along a fully glazed perimeter that gives the swimmer a view of the landscape surrounding Saint-Moritz (mainly toward the west, which is more freed up, visually), and of the skiers who day by day start their routine at this point.....more

NATIONAL TOURISTROUTE MARINATOMTA | Stranda, Norway | Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter

location: Geiranger harbour, Stranda, Norway
program: Viewpoint and recreation area
client: Norwegian public roads administration
size: 500 m2
commission type: direct commission
status: sketch project
year: scheduled completion 2011
The Geiranger fjord is listed on the UNESCO world heritage list and ranks as one of the most spectacular fjord landscapes in the world. The sheer intensity of impressions can sometimes be overwhelming, for on clear days it is as if the world was never quite as transparently deep and saturated as it is in Geiranger. The project is located in the midst of this natural intensity, by the water’s edge. The intention was to create a platform –in the figure of a wooden pier– that would work as a discreet yet robust element where travellers and local people could meet and blend in an unassuming and relaxed manner; a kind of counterweight to the spectacular scenery, which makes the experience of Geiranger even richer....more

Saemien Sijte | South Sami Cultural Center | Nord Trøndelag, Norway | Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter

location: Snåsa, Nord Trøndelag, Norway
program: New Museum and Cultural Center for South Sami heritage
client: Statsbygg; Norwegian Public Construction and Property Management
size: 2000 m2
commission type: 1 of 3 winners, open competition (2009)
status: competition
year: 2009

Saemien Sijte holds a very important position in the education and preservation of the South Sami culture, identity, language, history and community.
The historic settlements of the South Sami culture, with its elementary shapes, its materials and ways of construction, have inspired RRA to this distinctive project. The aim was through translation of this to create one plant, to achieve a varied and articulated continuations of rooms, each with contact to the landscape, the Cultural Center’s outdoor area or inbetween the rooms themselves.
The building’s architectural shape, plan and its material brings the culture and the sites characteristics together as one unit.....more

National Museum of Norway | Oslo | Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter

location: Vestbanen, Oslo, Norway
program: New National Museum of arts, design, industrial design, architecture and contemporary art and Offices for the Norwgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
client: Statsbygg; Norwegian Public Construction and Property Management
size: 46500m2 + offices buildings 32.500m2
commission type: Open International Design Competition (2009)
status: competition proposal "137 Kunstens Hus"
year: 2009
The National Museum is to be a forward-looking and innovative arena for the experience of the visual arts. At the same time it should be a safeguard for the community’s memory of this. With this project the nation will have a unifying and worthy National Museum, which is well- exposed, extrovert and easily accessible. The overall concept holds rationality and possesses openness that gives great opportunity for the flexibility of the different functions. At the same time the building contains of dramatic and challenging room sequences in a unique and very compact building. The experience of the project should be characterized by the interaction and synergy between the sites’ distinctiveness, the different parts of the project and the overall architectural expression. As a comprehensive and unique building will the museum emerge as a national icon....more

Guangxi Science & Technology Centre Nanning, China | BURO II & ARCHI+I

International competition | second prize
BURO II in collaboration with Elastic (architecture), Guangxi Institute of Architectural Design and Research (local partner), Ney and Partners, TTAS, Daidalos-Peutz and Van Santen & Ass.

The participation in this competition, organized by the South China province of Guangxi in 2006, we experimented with an open design platform. In addition to the usual supporting specialists, a team form Elastik participated: a young team of innovative designers from Amsterdam and Ljubljana.

The building is a symbol of openness, interaction and sustainable evolution. The innovative concept allows visitors to acquaint themselves with the evolution of science while also providing a glimpse into the future. As of today, this project will not be realized.....more

Cleveland Museum of Natural History Designed By Westlake Reed Leskosky

Sited amongst a concentration of international-caliber museums and institutions, this Museum of Natural History seeks to express a pronounced civic presence, publicly exhibit its expansive collections and critical research components, display virtues of sustainability and environmental stewardship, and create immersive didactic exhibit environments. The proposed design solution selectively demolishes portions of the 220,000 SF existing museum in order to create a grand entry portal, generous multi-level public spaces, a remediation courtyard, and expanded exhibit galleries for the dinosaur collections. 40,000 SF of new construction will include the new specimen lobby, new central plant, museum store, café and event space, and additional collection storage. The massing, articulation, cladding, systems, and shaping of public spaces are informed by structures, forms, of systems based in zoomorphic precedents or natural phenomena.....more