Transcending the boundaries between tradition and innovation, architecture and ecosystem, building and landscape, Weiss/Manfredi's addition to the historical Longwood Gardens Conservatory reinterprets classical greenhouse typologies and reinvigorates a privileged place within the expansive site.
Princeton's new 150,000 sq.ft. museum balances restraint and exuberance with a staid Neo Brutalist exterior and light-filled sunlight interior spaces. It encapsulates both almost classical control, with moments of material and spatial grace and grandeur. Litelab worked with Tillotson Design Associates to develop custom details that would integrate and enhance the architectural vision of the space, while providing a powerful infrastructure for art exhibition.
Connecting the museum's original Art Deco building with a newer 1994 pavilion, the new Joslyn Art Museum expansion redefines and integrates the cultural campus with a focus on bringing together indigenous and non-indigenous American Art into a cohesive narrative that honors the diversity of American art history and production.
Designed by Herzog & de Meuron, Calder Gardens performs like a picturesque garden in which Calder's sculptures act as folies. In the original picturesque garden movement, folies served to inspire a sense of the sublime. Calder's work engages the joy of change, and the museum honors this heritage.
The 2014 Harvard Art Museums expansion, designed by Renzo Piano with lighting by Arup, united three institutions into one innovative space. Embracing LED technology early, the museum prioritized conservation, sustainability, and exhibition quality.
The L10 Arts and Cultural Center unites four major institutions in a dynamic, 65,000-square-foot space in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Designed for collaboration and community, it sets a new standard for inclusive, flexible cultural infrastructure.
