Transcending the boundaries between tradition and innovation, architecture and ecosystem, building and landscape, Weiss/Manfredi's addition to the historical Longwood Gardens Conservatory reinterprets classical greenhouse typologies and reinvigorates a privileged place within the expansive site.
Princeton's new 150,000 sq.ft. museum balances restraint and exuberance with a staid Neo Brutalist exterior and light-filled sunlight interior spaces. It encapsulates both almost classical control, with moments of material and spatial grace and grandeur. Litelab worked with Tillotson Design Associates to develop custom details that would integrate and enhance the architectural vision of the space, while providing a powerful infrastructure for art exhibition.
Connecting the museum's original Art Deco building with a newer 1994 pavilion, the new Joslyn Art Museum expansion redefines and integrates the cultural campus with a focus on bringing together indigenous and non-indigenous American Art into a cohesive narrative that honors the diversity of American art history and production.
A short drive to the center of the United States, the Joslyn Museum sits at the “heart” of the country. As such, it embodies the complexity of American identity and the dynamic between regional and global influence. This condition is inscribed in the museum’s collection and architecture.
Designed by Herzog & de Meuron, Calder Gardens performs like a picturesque garden in which Calder's sculptures act as folies. In the original picturesque garden movement, folies served to inspire a sense of the sublime. Calder's work engages the joy of change, and the museum honors this heritage.
