The Norton Museum of Art celebrates construction milestone of its expansion designed by Foster + Partners


Today, on June 27, 2017, leaders from the Norton Museum of Art and Gilbane Building Company along with museum's staff and more than 100 construction workers attended a gala for the museum’s $100 million expansion project designed by Foster + Partners.

“We are thrilled to achieve this major construction milestone and are grateful to everyone who is helping us realize The New Norton. The expansion will allow the Museum to better serve the more than 100,000 annual visitors who attend exhibitions and programming, including the 12,000 schoolchildren the Norton educates each year,”—said executive Director Hope Alswang.“The New Norton is a transformative project for the Palm Beach County community and beyond. The new building has not only contributed jobs to our local community, it will also give our county a landmark building by an architect of international renown and dramatically expand visitation.” 

Located at 1451 S Olive ave in West Palms Beach, FL, The Norton is free to the public a...

Anastasia Tokmakova via Archinect - News http://ift.tt/2sR1imR

Yorumlar

Yorum Gönder

Bu blogdaki popüler yayınlar

2017 CMYK Color Swatch Calendar

Resim
Après les éditions 2014, 2015 et 2016 , le graphiste et designer Peter von Freyhold revient avec l’édition 2017 de son CMYK Color Swatch Calendar . Chaque jour de l’année dispose d’un petit onglet de couleur à détacher. Il est donc possible de créer des petits nuanciers de couleur, à l’aide des attaches disponibles. Un calendrier idéal pour les amoureux de design. L’objet est disponible à la vente ici . , Léa, via Fubiz Media http://ift.tt/2e1Vnqo
Devamı

Geo-Matrix Towers Span Across Oceans To Connect The Planet

Resim
Editors’ Choice 2020 Skyscraper Competition Ruwan Fernando Australia Ever since the Apollo mission showed us the first images of our ‘pale blue dot’ from space, the idea of the world as a ‘whole’ has captured the people’s imagination. Going beyond borders, oceans, and thinking of the continents as a continuous entity comes from this vision. Fifty years later, we face the existential threat of ecological disaster, and maybe revisiting the whole earth project seems like a way of recapturing that drive. This proposal looks at a network of towers that span across the oceans connecting the planet in a matrix that provides energy cleans the oceans and gives new chances for life to thrive. Fusion, Solar, and Hydro-power are used in this matrix with all of these being in high abundance in the ocean. The towers are also self-sufficient and mine minerals from the water as well as farm to support their communities. Research and manufacturing also feature heavily. The connections of the g
Devamı

Powerful Black Minimalist Tattoos

Resim
Avis aux amateurs de tatouages sobres et discrets : le travail de Jonathan Valena , aka Jonboy, tatoueur installé dans le Lower East Side à Manhattan, devrait attirer votre attention. Ses clients ont en effet recours à ses services pour inscrire sur leur peau des phrases motivationnelles ou poétiques avec une écriture épurée et fine qui semble manuscrite, ou des dessins minimalistes. Un travail agréable et doux à découvrir ci-dessous. , Hoel, via Fubiz Media http://ift.tt/2j9YRI4
Devamı