NOMA sculpture garden extension features outdoor theatre and submerged walkway
Landscape architecture firm Reed Hilderbrand has cut a pathway through water as part of its extension to the sculpture garden at the New Orleans Museum of Modern Art.
Measuring six acres (2.4 hectares), Reed Hilderbrand's addition doubles the size of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at the New Orleans Museum of Modern Art (NOMA).
American practice Reed Hilderbrand created the 280-foot-long (85-metre-long) pathway to run underneath an existing bridge that crossed the existing site and the site of the new addition. It is billed as the first canal-link of its kind in the US.
The lagoon water rises up to the top of the walkway's balustrade, a detail NOMA director Susan Taylor likens to the larger levee systems in the city that hold back the Mississippi River.
"It creates this engagement with water that's really immediate and visceral but also reflective of the larger microcosms of New Orleans, the levee systems," Taylor told Dezeen. "When you're looking over a bridge down on the levees you'll see there's this incredible wall that holds out the water."
Water forms a key feature of the sculpture garden's extension, which wraps a lagoon reshaped and cleared of the mud that had accumulated in the lagoon over the years. A weir cuts through the water to allow for changes in levels as a way to address the potential of flooding.
The new garden is formed of three curvilinear parcels of land arranged around the water. The canal-link dog-legs at the e...
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