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Mecanoo's enigmatic theater design stages Jacob's Pillow for a new era of performance in Massachusetts

2024-11-21T13:17:00-05:00

Mecanoo’s next cultural building in the United States, the new Doris Duke Theater for the Jacob’s Pillow dance center in western Massachusetts town of Becket, has announced its opening date of July 9th, 2025.

After the popular Berkshires destination suffered a devastating loss from a fire in late 2020, the $30 million rebuilding effort was launched, focused on creating a new home that, in the words of the center’s Artistic Director Pamela Tatge, is "grounded in the Indigenous history of the land on which we dance."

Image: Robert Benson, courtesy of Jacob's Pillow

Joining Mecanoo for its reimagined design was Marvel, now fresh off the groundbreaking of its new Bronx Museum of the Arts renovation/expansion and work on the esplanade for the new Universal Hip Hop Museum led by Michael Ford’s BrandNu Design Studio.

Image rendering by Mecanoo Architects and Marvel, courtesy of Jacob's Pillow

Francine Houben, Mecanoo’s founder, says: "At the heart of the new Doris Duke Theatre lies a celebra...

SO – IL will design a new building for the vaunted Williams College Museum of Art

2022-06-03T08:50:00-04:00

One of the leading academic art museums in the country has announced SO – IL will head a new expansion effort that will deliver the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) with the first stand-alone structure in the institution’s storied history.

Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu’s team is now tasked with the tremendous opportunity to develop a concept design for a new structure that will provide upgrade facilities to the museum’s collection, which has been housed since its inception in historic Lawrence Hall. A renovation of the existing building is being explored as well.

The partners referred to it as a “project the brings together our passion for the arts with our commitment to education.” They will look to build upon a cultural portfolio that includes UC Davis’ Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art and the award-winning new Amant Art Campus in Brooklyn and promise the new construction “wi...

Tadao Ando's New Clark Art Museum is Berkshires, with Bilbao Ambitions

2014-07-07T13:43:00-04:00

After 14 years of talking, of battles, and of construction, and in one of the more ambitious reimaginings of a regional museum ever, the art-rich Clark has opened a new building, plopped a lake behind it and expanded to a 140-acre campus. It opens July 4, and it is magnificent—mostly—but we’ll get to that.