RSS FeedSmithsonian American Art & Portrait Gallery Courtyard Cover Takes Shape
Spot the bright curved shape in this pic and you’ve found the beginnings of the museum’s courtyard roof designed by renowned architect Norman Foster.
- The new enclosed Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard, designed by renowned architect Norman Foster of Foster and Partners, will provide a dynamic year-round public gathering space that will accommodate a variety of functions. Internationally acclaimed landscape designer Kathryn Gustafson of Gustafson Guthrie Nichol Ltd. has been selected to create the interior design. This major new space will be one of the largest public event spaces in the city. The enclosed courtyard is expected to be complete in mid-2007, approximately one year after the museums re-open to the public. (Source)
Also, just a reminder that the museums are set to reopen on July 1, 2006!
Link to past gpliving article on the Smithsonian American Art & Portrait Gallery.
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I’m totally psyched… I can’t wait to see the Bill and Hillary portraits, among others.
I wonder if there will be a decent cafe inside?
I’m very excited as well! Who wouldn’t be? The new indoor courtyard is supposed to be one of the largest indoor rooms in DC, rivaling the Building Museum. The museum used to have a cafe with courtyard seating, and I think it’s coming back. The courtyard’s delayed opening may delay that, too.
I am probably most excited to have the other side of 7th Street open again for walking. That will be so nice.
I can’t wait to see the undulating Foster desinged roof. We need more great gathering spaces in this town, not to mention more daring architecture.
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I hope everyone in the neighborhood is psyched about the museum’s re-opening July 1. The museum, IMHO, is the real cornerstone of the neighborhood and will be an incredible draw. Do people know it is the second or third oldest public building in all of DC? Abe Lincoln had his inauguration party in the western wing? It also seems to be the only Smithsonian that is closely attached to a residential neighborhood. So many high profile parties are going to shift from the Building Museum to the Partrait Gallery, it will be tuxedo central…