The Portland Museum of Art in New England has announced that American designer Lever Architecture has won a competition for USD 100 million campus expansion and unification project. The PMA Blueprint, as the project is called, includes a new wing of the museum with 60,000 square feet of space and improvements to four existing buildings. A number of these will be connected, including the postmodern Charles Shipman Payson Building, completed in 1983, the beaux-arts Lorenzo De Medici Sweat Memorial Galleries, from 1911, the Federalist-style McLellan House, built in 1801, and the Greek revival Clapp House from 1832.The linking structure will be made primarily from mass timber, referencing Maine’s heritage as a lumber state. There new wing will also made from mass timber, as well as terracotta and glass. It will have a curved roofline designed to frame the sun as it rises and sets, honouring Maine’s Wabanaki communities and the land they call Wabanakik, or Dawnland.
The Portland Museum of Art in New England has announced that American designer Lever Architecture has won a competition for USD 100 million campus expansion and unification project. The PMA Blueprint, as the project is called, includes a new wing of the museum with 60,000 square feet of space and improvements to four existing buildings. A number of these will be connected, including the postmodern Charles Shipman Payson Building, completed in 1983, the beaux-arts Lorenzo De Medici Sweat Memorial Galleries, from 1911, the Federalist-style McLellan House, built in 1801, and the Greek revival Clapp House from 1832.The linking structure will be made primarily from mass timber, referencing Maine’s heritage as a lumber state. There new wing will also made from mass timber, as well as terracotta and glass. It will have a curved roofline designed to frame the sun as it rises and sets, honouring Maine’s Wabanaki communities and the land they call Wabanakik, or Dawnland.
