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Gensler releases plans for winged Flight Test Museum in California

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Architecture firm Gensler has released plans for the new Flight Test Museum in Antelope Valley north of Los Angeles.

The design combines the dimensions of an airport hangar with the shape of the Nighthawk aircraft, an American stealth plane first built in the 1980s.

"The reimagination of the Flight Test Museum coincides with the rise of commercial space exploration and the 75th anniversary of the breaking of the sound barrier," said the studio in a release.

The 60,000-square-foot (5,570-square-metre) "hangar" will have a metallic angular roof that slopes down to create a pavilion over the glass entryway.

Air Force Test Museum Gensler Antelope Valley InteriorThe Test Flight Museum designed by Gensler will be on the site of the current museum

"We expanded the roof area by creating large undulating, stretched planes of metallic perforated metal, giving rise to distinctive wing-like shapes that shimmer and offer striking silhouettes against the surrounding desert landscape," Peter Wang, principal and design director on the project for Gensler, told Dezeen.

A primary hangar will be surrounded by a second-storey viewing platform so that visitors can see the displays from above.

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Plans include a welcome lounge, gallery space, classrooms, library, and gift shop, as well as a bar dedicated to Florence Lowe "Pancho" Barnes, the aviator who founded the first movie stunt pilots' union.

Sited in the desert where some of the first jet and space flight technologies were tested, the finished museum will hold more than 80 historic aircraft, with room for other larger aircraft in the planned outdoor exhibition spaces.

Initial construction on the project has begun, with completion slated for 2024.

Gensler is one of the world's largest architecture firms, with almost 50 offices globally. Following the death of its founder Art Gensler last year, Dezeen highlighted eight key projects from the company.

Other architecture projects that take influences from hangars include the MEETT exhibition centre by OMA, as well as Italian office Piuarch's transformation of an old aircraft hangar into Gucci's headquarters in Milan.

Renderings are courtesy of Gensler.

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Gensler releases plans for winged Flight Test Museum in California

International architecture studio Gensler has released plans for the new Flight Test Museum in Antelope Valley north of Los Angeles.

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Denton Corker Marshall designs metal-clad cube for Shepparton Art Museum in Australia

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Image of the art museum from the roadside

Architecture practice Denton Corker Marshall has completed an art museum in Victoria, Australia, with a cubic glass form shielded by large metal-clad plates on its facades.

Won by the local practice via an architectural competition in 2017, the new 5,300-square-metre Shepparton Art Museum sits overlooking a lake at the edge of a nearby nature reserve.

As the site is a floodplain, the museum's footprint was kept small – extruded upwards to create five floors containing four galleries, children's spaces, and the Kailua Arts Aboriginal community arts centre.

The Shepparton Art Museum is lit by warm lighting at duskThe Shepparton Art Museum in Victoria was designed by Denton Corker Marshall

Denton Corker Marshall referenced the natural surroundings to conceive the museum as a "land sculpture". The project comprises the museum itself and an adjacent Art Hill, which conceals the building's services and parking beneath stepped concrete seating.

"Sitting between the lake and the main road into town from Melbourne, it presents a strikingly bold signal – a new contemporary building added to the fabric of the city," said John Denton, co-founder of Denton Corker Marshall.

Shepparton Art Museum has a sculptural exteriorThe practice wrapped the art museum in a metal facade

This sculptural form is defined by the four metal-clad plates that appear to shift as you move around the building's exterior. Three are clad in powder-coated silver aluminium, while a fourth faced in contrasting weathered steel demarcates the main entrance.

L-shaped in form, these plates extend with small canopies to created sheltered, verandah-like spaces around the museum's entrances, and feature perforated areas and cut-outs that give glimpses into the interior.

Powder-coated aluminium volumes were built beside a wide set of stepsDifferent metal volumes make up the Shepparton Art Museum

"From a distance, the plates give virtually no indication of the interior life to be discovered and explored," said the practice.

"At their base, they float seemingly unsupported over an open, visibly accessible and highly activated ground plane...each plate is an object in its own right and an integral part of the whole," it continued.

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The museum's entrance leads into a full-height atrium, alongside the community arts centre and administrative spaces on the ground floor.

On the first floor, level with the Art Hill, a large cafe space opens onto a terrace that leads out onto the amphitheatre-style seating area.

Interior image of a large staircase at the museumConcrete was used throughout the interior of the museum. Photo is by Tim Griffith

"The Art Hill creates an upper ground level, enabling the museum cafe to enjoy an elevated outlook whilst being directly connected to, and accessible from, the park," said the practice.

A central, open staircase connects to the museum's four gallery spaces, designed to show a mixture of international exhibitions, permanent collections and new commissions.

Interior image of a gallery and exhibition space Parts of the museum are directly accessible from a nearby public park. Photo is by Tim Griffith

"The interior design [features] interconnected multi-level spaces, materials, texture, with intuitive way finding by Studio Ongarato," said the practice.

"[This is] overlaid with contrasts of drama, reflection, outlook, information and discovery, all of which are conceived as integral elements of the museum experience," it continued.

Art work is displayed in a minimal exhibition spaceGallery spaces are designed to show a mixture of international exhibitions, permanent collections and new commissions. Photo is by Tim Griffith

Previous projects by Denton Corker Marshall include the Australian Embassy in Jakarta, a cluster of cubic forms clad in contrasting metal finishes.

In 2015, the studio built a "mysterious black box" for Australia's contribution to the Venice biennale.

The photography is byJohn Gollings unless stated otherwise.

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Denton Corker Marshall designs metal-clad cube for art museum in Australia

Architecture practice Denton Corker Marshall has completed the Shepparton Art Museum in Victoria, Australia, with a cubic glass form shielded by large metal-clad plates on its facades.

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Killa Design's Museum of the Future opens in Dubai

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Killa Design's Museum of the Future in Dubai

A museum in Dubai dedicated to the future, which has been dubbed "the most beautiful building in the world" by the emirate's ruler, has officially opened its doors.

Designed by local studio Killa Design, the museum stands in a prominent location alongside Dubai's elevated train line, a short distance from the Burj Khalifa skyscraper – the world's tallest building.

Museum of the Future in DubaiThe Museum of the Future has opened in Dubai

Designed to be "an architectural and cultural icon", the museum consists of an elongated ring shape with a void at its centre, sat on a grass-covered mound.

The distinctive form led Dubai ruler and UAE vice president Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum to state that the museum is "the most beautiful building in the world".

Dubai's elevated train line with Emirates Towers and Museum of the FutureIt stands alongside Dubai's elevated train line

Built for the Dubai Future Foundation, the seven-storey building contains a combination of exhibits dedicated to the future and workshops for testing and developing emerging technology.

"The Museum of the Future is a 'living museum', constantly adapting and metamorphosing as its very environment drives continual and iterative change to its exhibits and attractions," said Mohammed Al Gergawi, chairman of the Dubai Future Foundation.

Museum in downtown DubaiDubai's ruler described the museum as "the most beautiful building in the world"

Killa Design's museum contains a 1,000-capacity multi-use hall, a 345-seat lecture theatre as well as numerous laboratory spaces.

Five floors of gallery space contain exhibits dedicated to space exploration, a digital recreation of the Amazon rainforest and prototypes of future products.

White spiral staircase in Dubai museumInternally the spaces have no columns

The 77-metre-high building is supported by a steel structure, developed with engineering studio Buro Happold, which was "digitally grown" using parametric tools.

This structure means that the building has no internal columns.

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It is clad in stainless steel with windows in the form of quotes from the emirate's ruler written in Arabic calligraphy.

The three sentences written on the building say: "We may not live for hundreds of years, but the products of our creativity can leave a legacy long after we are gone"; "The future belongs to those who can imagine it, design it, and execute it. It isn't something you await, but rather create"; and "Innovation is not an intellectual luxury. It is the secret behind the evolution and rejuvenation of nations and peoples".

Gallery showing space travelExhibits include a space station simulator

This year Dubai is hosting the coronavirus-delayed Expo 2020 Dubai.

The event contained pavilions designed by some of the world's leading architects including Santiago Calatrava, Foster + Partners and Grimshaw. We rounded up 10 must-see pavilions at the expo.

The photography is courtesy of Dubai Future Foundation.

Project credits:

Client: Dubai Future Foundation

Developer: North25

Architect: Killa Design

Lead consultant (design, site supervision and contract administration): Buro Happold:

Structural engineering, facade engineering, sustainability, building services engineering: Buro Happold

Bridges, transport, infrastructure, geotechnical engineering, access, people flow modelling, fire and life safety, specialist lighting, acoustics, waste and logistics: Buro Happold

Project manager and employers representative: Matthews Southwest

Cost consultant: AECOM

AoR/EoR: Rice Perry Ellis Cracknell (Landscape),

AV/ICT: Mediatech

VT: RBA

Civils: CDM Smith

Programming: Matrix

H &S: Atkins

Security: Arkan

Auditorium: Theatre Projects

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Killa Design's Museum of the Future opens in Dubai

A museum in Dubai dedicated to the future, which has been dubbed "the most beautiful building in the world", has officially opened its doors.

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Maria Nicanor appointed director of New York City's Cooper Hewitt museum

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Maria Nicanor

Curator and historian Maria Nicanor has been announced as the new director of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum after a lengthy interim period following the resignation of former director Caroline Baumann in 2020.

Nicanor, who will officially start the role on 21 March, joins the museum as it celebrates its 125th anniversary and will be responsible for a collection of approximately 215,000 objects, as well as 86 employees and a $15 million annual budget.

Her role will involve leading the Cooper Hewitt museum's programme of exhibitions, which includes a newly launched digital exhibition platform.

Nicanor will also oversee various educational projects such as Cooper Hewitt's annual National Design Awards, a renowned initiative that aims to highlight the power and importance of design.

Maria NicanorNicanor has been named director of the Cooper Hewitt museum. Image is courtesy of PhotoShelter

"Joining the Smithsonian family and building upon Cooper Hewitt’s past successes provides the opportunity to bring together the three most important pillars of my career: design and architecture, public service and museum work," Nicanor said.

"We can’t ignore that it’s a particularly complicated time for museums in general right now. Not just what we do, but how we do it, for whom and with whom, are essential questions for design museums to consider."

Nicanor will "help Cooper Hewitt reach audiences around the world"

Nicanor is an architecture and design curator, historian and the executive director of the Rice Design Alliance (RDA), a public outreach programme run by Houston's Rice School of Architecture since 1972.

Born in Barcelona, she has an extensive history of work in art and design museums including the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in New York and London's V&A. She also led the opening of the Norman Foster Foundation in Madrid.

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"Maria has an impressive passion for design and a thorough understanding of the impact it has on our shared future," said Lonnie Bunch, secretary of the Smithsonian.

"Her vision and leadership will help Cooper Hewitt reach even more audiences across the nation and around the world."

Appointment follows 2020 resignation of previous director Caroline Baumann

Located on Museum Mile in New York City's Upper East Side, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is one of 19 museums attached to the Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum, education and research complex.

Nicanor's appointment to the museum follows the resignation of Caroline Baumann, who served as director from 2013 to 2020 but resigned after an investigation into her conduct in acquiring a wedding dress and venue.

Ruki Neuhold-Ravikumar and John Davis have acted as interim directors since 2020.

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Maria Nicanor appointed director of New York City's Cooper Hewitt museum

Curator and historian Maria Nicanor has been announced as the new director of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum after a lengthy interim period following the resignation of former director Caroline Baumann in 2020.

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Obscenely detailed 717 gigapixel scan lets you peer at Rembrandt’s Night Watch masterpiece online from the Rijksmuseum website

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The Rijksmuseum has released what it claims is the “largest and most detailed photograph of any artwork,” and it’s viewable for free on its website. The scan is of Rembrandt van Rijn’s 1642 masterpiece The Night Watch, a roughly 12 by 14 foot painting which is currently the focus of a massive research and restoration project called “Operation Night Watch.”

The technical details of the scan are staggering. In a press release, the Rijksmuseum explains that it’s made up of 8,439 individual photographs taken with a 100 megapixel Hasselblad H6D 400 MS camera. Neural networks were reportedly used to check each image for colour and sharpness, and an AI system helped stitch these photos together into a single image.

Arguably, it’s an even better experience than seeing the painting in the flesh, since this software allows you to really press your nose up against it in a way that would get you thrown out of most museums.

See https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2022/1/11/22877951/rembrandt-night-watch-digital-gigapixel-scan

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