An expansive green roof, bird-friendly glass and copper accents are among the design elements that architecture firm FXCollaborative incorporated into an angular museum on Liberty Island in the New York Harbor.
The Statue of Liberty Museum sits just across from Lady Liberty, the famed neoclassical sculpture that France gave to the US in the 1880s. The monument sits on a 15-acre (six-hectare) island that is accessed by ferry from lower Manhattan and Jersey City.

From the very start of the project, New York's FXCollaborative ? formerly known as FXFowle ? wanted to create a museum that engaged its surroundings and merged with the landscape.
"The Statue of Liberty Museum was conceived as a garden pavilion that would create a joyous and welcoming experience for all visitors to the island," said design partner Nicholas Garrison in a project description. Facing a circular plaza, the museum consists of angular volumes that are built into a waterfront site.

"The design eschews formality in favour of an asymmetrical design that embraces its dramatic setting and changes form as visitors move in, on and around it," said the firm.
Exterior walls consists of concrete and glass decorated with a dot pattern to make it more bird-friendly. Copper fascias are made of the same material used during the restoration of Lady Liberty in the 1980s.

A wide, granite staircase runs up the centre of the structure and leads to an expansive roof terrace, where visitors can take in p...