Architecture studios Snøhetta and Alley Poyner Macchietto Architecture have completed a renovation and expansion of the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha with the addition of a "weightless" pavilion.
The project encompassed the renovation of pre-existing buildings and landscape at the Joslyn Art Museum and adding a 42,000 square-foot (3,900 square metre) extension that juts off the front.
Snøhetta has renovated and added an extension to the Joslyn Art Museum
The museum consists of a main building completed in 1931 by Nebraska architects John and Alan McDonald and an extension by Norman Foster added in 1994, which sits directly to the side and is linked by a thin glass atrium that runs between the two volumes.
Both buildings were clad in a distinct Georgia Pink marble. The expansion is clad in concrete and Georgia Pink marble
The team updated the interior of pre-existing buildings, which included adding classrooms and restoring office space, "rejuvenated" the grounds and added the new Rhonda & Howard Hawks Pavilion extension to hold additional galleries and public spaces for the museum.
The new building is made up of volume with a wave-like lip that connects to the glass atrium of Foster's 1994 extension.
The new wing appears to sit on granite walls that surround the building
Divided between two levels, it contains additional galleries, a shop, public spaces, and a new main entrance.
The building's curved, main volume was clad in a screen of thin concrete ...