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Take a look inside Studio Gang’s newly-opened Gilder Center at the American Museum of Natural History

2023-05-04T08:00:00-04:00

Studio Gang has completed work on the $465 million new Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education and Innovation at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Coinciding with the official public opening today, the museum has shared first photos of the project, showcasing the 230,000-square-foot wing that replaces several outdated small buildings with new education and exhibition spaces, a theater, storage, laboratories, insectarium, and butterfly vivarium.

Image: © Iwan Baan

Michael Kimmelman recently gave the project a rave review, exalting its merits as a well-detailed and materials-rich environment with the intangible staying power to last for generations.

Image: Alvaro Keding/© AMNH

Image: © Iwan Baan

The wing features exhibition designs from Ralph Appelbaum Associates and a parametric five-story central atrium made from shotcrete and engineered in place with the help of Arup. The Center then connects to the museum's ten other buildings in 33 places, ...

The Bronx's Universal Hip Hop Museum gets a 2024 opening date

2022-08-15T19:35:00-04:00

An opening date has been set for the exciting new Hip Hop Museum (UHHM) project in the South Bronx.

Located on the site claiming to be the birthplace of hip hop, the new $80 million museum, which is part of a larger $349 million mixed-use residential development called Bronx Point, will open sometime in 2024. According to Hyperallergic, the museum is being developed by Bronx native Rocky Bucano alongside Microsoft and MIT professor D. Fox Harrell to create an immersive and “technologically advanced interactive museum experience.”

May 2022 construction photo of the Bronx Point development. Image courtesy the Universal Hip Hop Museum via Facebook

Phase One of the Bronx Point development is expected to be completed by the end of next year. In total, the 22-story building will include over 1,000 residential units (around 540 of which are considered affordable), the museum (the exhibition spaces of which are designed by Ralph Appelbaum Associates with the Hip Hop Architect, Michael Ford),...

Gensler’s Jackie Robinson Museum project finally debuts after a 14-year saga

2022-08-05T15:57:00-04:00

Last week was opening day for the new Gensler-designed Jackie Robinson Museum in Lower Manhattan. Luminaries, including Spike Lee and Mayor Eric Adams were on hand to inaugurate the museum, which was first announced by Major League Baseball and the Jackie Robinson Foundation to observe the 61st anniversary of his Dodgers debut in 2008.

Occupying a space on Varick Street that is now landmarked by the city, the 20,000-square-foot museum focuses as much on Robinson’s multisport athletic career and rise to baseball’s pinnacle as it does on his progressive social activism and lifelong fight against racism.

Years of delays meant the project has been put off its intended 2019 opening until this year.

Having opened its doors last Friday, the Jackie Robinson Museum seeks to bring people from all walks together to commune and appreciate each other’s humanity and diverse experiences. Enjoy a glimpse of the ribbon cutting ceremony led by Emmy Award winner @RobinRoberts pic.twitter.com/QyNcQVhW...

Renderings of the Holocaust Museum for Hope & Humanity in Orlando unveiled

2022-04-14T17:18:00-04:00

The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida (HMREC) has just revealed architectural renderings for the new Holocaust Museum for Hope & Humanity in downtown Orlando, Florida. It aims to be the world’s first Holocaust museum designed around survivor and witness testimonies.

The USC Shoah Foundation will serve as a content and creative partner in the development of the new museum. This is the first time the Foundation has teamed with a Holocaust Museum to design and implement a ground-up and permanent museum-wide exhibition.

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The museum will occupy a lakefront site and span 43,000 square feet. It has an estimated construction budget of $45 million, with its design led by Beyer Blinder Belle Architects and Planners (BBB). The firm will collaborate with museum experts Ralph Appelbaum ...

Carlsberg creates new attraction in Copenhagen

2012-03-27T00:13:00-04:00

A strong international team wins Carlsberg’s design and architecture competition to create a new Brand & Experience Centre in the Carlsberg District located in Copenhagen

It may not be a new Little Mermaid like the one Carl Jacobsen donated to Copenhagen in 1913 but Carlsberg is now ready to create an inspiring attraction in Copenhagen once again.

Today, Carlsberg took one step closer towards the realisation of the ambitious Brand & Experience Centre when the winner of the international design and architecture competition was revealed. The winning team was led by Ralph Appelbaum Associates a global cultural attraction planning and design company with offices in New York and London together with Danish PLH Architects among its partners. A total of 240 companies from 20 different countries participated in the competition.

It was a satisfied chairman of the jury, Carlsberg Group’s CEO Jørgen Buhl Rasmussen that revealed the results and the winning vision of the competition anno...