Shop Talk with Rich Brilliant Willing on our Dimple lighting collaboration for Sister City →
Dwell - Ace Hotel's Sister City Opens in New York --- and it's a Beaut
Vogue - Tranquility Rules at Sister City, the newest hotel on the Bowery →
Forbes - Ace Hotel launches new 'Sister City' spin-off in New York
NMAAHC Exhibit Design wins SEGD Merit Award
Washington Post - the Story behind the Design of the African American History & Culture Museum
Washington Post - Exclusive Tour inside the newest Smithsonian
NY Times - How Do You Tell the Story of Black America in One Museum?
Wallpaper Magazine Design Awards 2016: Best Cultural Draw – National Museum of African-American History and Culture →
“The museum ‘stands with and against the other institutions on the Mall’, he says, echoing Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, ‘with exactly this purpose: to say that this, too, is American history; this, too, is America.’”
NY Times Arts Beat - A Black History Museum Introduces Itself on the National Mall
A video display, titled "Commemorate & Celebrate Freedom," was projected on the facade of the National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington
A new Smithsonian museum dedicated to telling the history of African-Americans lit up the National Mall on Monday night as historical images related to the Civil War, the abolition of slavery and the passage of the Voting Rights Act were projected onto the facade of the five-story building. Called the National Museum of African American History and Culture, it is slated to open next fall.
Atlantic Council - Qatar's New Slavery Museum
It was a huge surprise last week to learn of a new museum dedicated to a deeply sensitive topic: slavery in the Gulf. More surprising still, the museum is excellent. The slavery museum, one of four heritage museums built as part of Doha’s massive Msheirib Downtown project, had been kept under wraps and is not yet open to the public. The VIP ribbon cutting ceremony led by Sheikha Mouza bint Nasser, chairperson of Qatar Foundation, allowed prominent Qataris the opportunity to view the completed exhibits firsthand, before opinions formed elsewhere.
PROJECT Heritage Houses Museums
LOCATION Doha, Qatar
ROLE Exhibit Designer with Ralph Appelbaum Associates, renderings and production drawings
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http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/qatar-s-new-slavery-museum
NY Times - Grim History Traced in Sunken Slave Ship →
“The space in the museum for the items pulled from the sea, he said, will include recordings of voices describing the slave trade — “a place,” Mr. Bunch said, “for you to mourn and to remember.””
60 Minutes - A Monumental Project
“Four hundred years have past since America’s original sin and still riots are ignited in the friction between race and justice. As this debate continues the Smithsonian is completing a monumental project, the $500 million National Museum of African American History and Culture... Building the museum has been a long struggle, just like the story it hopes to tell. Beside the monument to Washington, a slave-holding president, the museum is breaking free of the ground on the mall’s last five acres. Eight decades after Congress framed a museum on paper and then failed to fund it, the dream is being written, this time, in steel and stone. Ten floors. Five above ground, five below. Its complexion, rendered in shades of bronze, a building of color against history’s white marble.”
Wunderkammer Book by Tod Williams & Billie Tsien →
Books available for purchase at: http://yalebooks.com/book/9780300197983/wunderkammer
PROJECT Wunderkammer exhibit by Tod Williams & Billie Tsien for the Common Ground exhibit curated by David Chipperfield
LOCATION Venice, Italy
ROLE Team member, Matthew Baird Architects, including design, fabrication, and on site installation in Venice
Inspired by the idea of the wunderkammer—“wonder-room” or “cabinet of curiosities”—that originated during the Renaissance, world-renowned architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien invited 35 celebrated architects and designers from around the world to create their own wunderkammers, filling boxes with objects that inspire them for display at the 2012 Venice Biennale.
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http://www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/the-cabinet-of-curiosities/
Image Credits: © Matthew Baird Architects, © Juanita Wichienkuer
Smithsonian Magazine - Installing an Artifact in a Museum that Hasn't Even Been Built Yet →
Image credit: Ralph Appelbaum Associates
As depicted in this rendering of the museum interior, visitors will be able to pass through segregated Rail Car No. 1200. The museum will open in 2016 on the National Mall.
NY Times - Haunting Relic of History, Slave Cabin Gets a Museum Home in Washington
The cabin is being dismantled and will be rebuilt at the Smithsonian’s new African-American history museum. Credit: Stephen Morton for The New York Times
