The Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education and Innovation by Studio Gang marks a new era for New York City’s iconic American Museum of Natural History
Designed by Studio Gang, the Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education and Innovation heralds a new era for New York City’s iconic American Museum of Natural History. Widely regarded as an architectural feat, with its cavernous, roughly hewn rock-like walls on the inside and an equally organic, curving Milford Pink stone façade on the outside, the museum’s new wing is wondrously tactile.
Amongst the building’s many notable highlights is the dramatic five-storey Kenneth C Griffin Exploration Atrium, a grand space bathed in natural light from the large-scale skylights above, that echoes the texture, colour and flowing forms of ancient canyons in the American Southwest. The visually striking structure is made by spraying concrete directly onto rebar without traditional formwork in a technique known as ‘shotcrete’.
The atrium’s height also provides natural light and air circulation to the heart of the building’s interior, acting as a key sustainability feature. Meanwhile, a broad, grand staircase on the atrium’s east side is also designed as seating steps on one side, with deep, walnut-covered treads and high risers.
The six-storey addition, four floors of which are open to the public, houses the Louis V Gerstner, Jr Core Collections, where visitors can enjoy discovering displays of over 3,000 objects that represent every area of the museum’s treasured offerings, ranging from vertebrate and invertebrate zoology, paleontology, geology, anthropology, to archaeology. Materials range from dinosaur tracks to astronomical instruments, and from antlers to pottery.
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