上周7月27日，奥斯陆建筑公司Snøhetta正式揭示了其扩展Joslyn艺术的设计计划Museumin奥马哈,内布拉斯加州，同一天它破裂了. The project, which Snøhetta is undertaking alongside local partners Alley Poyner Macchietto Architecture (APMA), will also include the renovations of existing office spaces and the rejuvenation of three acres of public gardens on the institution’s grounds.
A landmark cultural asset in Nebraska’s largest city, the Joslyn Museum has stood in Omaha since 1931 when it was endowed by the widow of the late printing magnate George Joslyn. The institution’s current style is characterized by an original艺术装饰建筑师约翰和艾伦·麦克唐纳（Alan McDonald）设计的建筑物，以及1994年的建筑Foster + Partners—诺曼·福斯特爵士在美国的第一个建设项目。今天，博物馆拥有当代艺术的菲利普·施拉格（Phillip G. Schrager）收藏。
Snøhetta和APMA在设计新计划的核心目标是将可用的画廊空间扩大三分之一。建筑师还试图完全重新配置建筑物的进入序列，将访问权的主要点移至现场北端的达文波特街。一条新的通道和高架雕塑花园将引导游客到博物馆的主要入口，这将通过上面的画廊的突出屏蔽元素。
The southeast corner of the site has also been refashioned to render the museum more inviting to guests and passersby alike. A retaining wall will be lowered to reveal views of the original Memorial Building, its monumental staircase, and a new lawn with native plantings.
The new building itself has a dramatic, curving facade that appears to float above granite garden walls, creating a striking contrast with the firmly planted bases of the campus’s two older buildings and evoking, in Snøhetta’s words, “the striking cloud formations that blanket the Great Plains as well as the deep overhangs and horizontal expression of regional Prairie Style architecture.”
The weightlessness of the addition will be accentuated by transparent glass walls on the ground floor which will enclose the museum’s new lobby, store, and multi-purpose spaces. The solid walls that envelop the upper-level galleries will be covered in precast concrete panels with rose-tinted hues, reflecting the Georgia Pink marble used to construct the Memorial Building in the 1930s.
Daylit galleries for the display of sizable portions of Joslyn’s expansive collection will be supplemented by new classrooms and gathering spaces, which the museum hopes will help foster new community connections. In the words of Snøhetta director and architect Kate Larsen, the transformation of the institution’s indoor and outdoor spaces will “create a beautiful and welcoming new front door to the museum, inviting in many generations to come.”
While Snøhetta’s most well-known museum project in the United States may still be its2016 addition到旧金山现代艺术博物馆的Mario-Botta设计的校园（SFMOMA), the firm has been awarded a slew of similar commissions in the past year.
2020年9月，工作室赢得了比赛设计以前西奥多·罗斯福sidential Library in the Badlands of North Dakota, just weeks beforerevealing its winning designfor the El Paso Children’s Museum in Texas. Earlier this year,达特茅斯学院选择Snøhettato lead the expansion of its Hopkins Art Center, only weeks before another major university—the University of Texas at Austin—揭示了公司选择的建议for its Blanton Museum of Art. Snøhetta has also amassed significant experience designing museums and galleries of all scales across Scandinavia and other parts of Western Europe.
According to a Snøhetta press release, the institution is slated for its post-expansion reopening sometime in mid-2024, prior to which the galleries will be closed to the public for about two years.
