It’s Tuesday, time for another “Round Up” of previously published works. This week, we bring you our first selection of Museums.
Grand Rapids Art Museum: LEED Gold Certified The new Grand Rapids Art Museum, by wHY Architecture, occupies one city block right in the heart of Grand Rapids, Michigan. The new museum has 125,000 SF of floor area with more than 50,000 SF of gallery and art exhibition spaces. The new building is located adjacent to the park with sculpture “Ecliptic” by Maya Lin, forming an urban oasis surrounded by tall buildings. The design stresses both the symbolic need of a museum to be a civic icon within the city, plus fulfilling humanistic needs for people to have their own experience with art (read more…)
