Frank Gehry to partner again with Thomas Krens on Extreme Model Railroad and Contemporary Architecture Museum

2017-08-31T14:22:00-04:00

Famed architect Frank Gehry agreed earlier this summer to design the Krens museum, the fifth such project they've worked on together ... Krens, who is credited with conceiving of Mass MoCA before leaving to serve as the director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation until 2008, first proposed a model railroad and contemporary architecture museum at Western Gateway Heritage State Park in 2015.

The museum will be one piece of an 11-part revitalization plan issued by Krens for the North Adams neighborhood in Massachusetts, best known as the home to MASS MoCA—a project Gehry and Krens previously partnered on. The wide-scale development includes renovation of a historic theatre, the creation of the Massachusetts Museum of Time, a new luxury hotel, a distillery and the Extreme Model Railroad and Contemporary Architecture Museum, of which Gehry is to design. Architects Richard Gluckman and Jean Nouvel will also be involved in the revitalization.

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Frank Gehry to partner again with Thomas Krens on Extreme Model Railroad and Contemporary Architecture Museum