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Yarışma Özeti(Summary):
The Los Angeles County Natural History Museum Foundation seeks a Design
Architect for its New Museum project.

Tip (Type):
Open, RFQ
Kimler katılabilir (Open to):
All
Katılım ücreti (Entry Fee):
None
Ödüller (Awards):
Design commission
Juri (Jury):
Unannounced
İletişim Bilgileri (Contact): 

Website: http://www.nhm.org/newmuseum/
Email: 

The New Museum will set international standards for museum design. The
building will be a landmark architectural home for the institution,
combining the historic heart of the current building with stunning new
architecture. It will model sustainable design principles in an
architecture that minimizes environmental degradation, regenerates natural
resources, and inspires stewardship of the natural world. The physical
boundaries between the building interior and its environment will be
blurred, encouraging the user to ponder the connections between self,
community, and world. The design will make the Museums collections
accessible to the public, will integrate the human and natural sciences, and
will enable fluid, relevant exhibitions appropriate to our changing times.
It will speak to and of the Los Angeles regions place on the planet,
highlighting the parallels between its peoples and environments, and those
of the greater world. Above all, the New Museum will embody our mission to
inspire wonder, discovery and responsibility for our natural and cultural
worlds.

The New Museum project is located on 14 acres within the 160 acre Exposition
Park, just south of downtown Los Angeles. The area is home to a number of
cultural institutions including the California Science Center, California
African-American Museum, a science and math elementary school, a community
center, and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The campus of the University
of Southern California faces the Park on its north side. Many of these
institutions are embarking on ambitious and exciting building projects,
contributing to the revitalization of the Park and of downtown Los Angeles.

The New Museum project proposes the replacement/reconstruction of the
existing 410,000 sf building, including the demolition of major portions of
the existing structure and preservation of remaining historic portions. In
addition, 80,000 sf of offsite facilities will be relocated to the Museum
site.

The proposed schedule for this project expects the New Museum to be
completed and operational by December 2009. The estimated building
construction cost is $100,000,000, with an additional $45,000,000 allocated
for construction of exhibitions. (The Museum is aware that this is an
aggressive budget; we want the architect to work with us to find strategies
to achieve high design quality within cost constraints.) We anticipate
annual attendance at the New Museum of over 1 million people.

Through the process outlined in this document, the Museum intends to select
the firm best able to provide design services for this project. This Request
for Qualifications (RFQ) asks for the Design Architect only (henceforth
referred to as Architect in this document). The subsequent Request for
Proposals (RFP) may require the submission of a design team, including
Executive Architect and consultants. This will be an open selection;
responses from all qualified firms will be carefully considered. Selection
will be complete by the summer of 2002.

For more information or to register, contact:
Website: http://www.nhm.org/newmuseum/