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Museum: Phoenix Children's Museum
Location: Downtown Phoenix, AZ Architect: Norman Marsh (Los Angeles) Completed: 1913 as the Monroe school. Renovated and reopened in 2008 as the Children's Museum of Phoenix http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/8...nsphoenix1.jpg http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/454...ldmuseum01.jpg http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/2...gstructure.jpg Photos from the Museum's site This one is under construction but I'm very excited about it: Museum: Scottsdale Museum of the West Location: Old Town Scottsdale, AZ Architect: Eddie Jones/Jones Studio Completion: 2012 http://img851.imageshack.us/img851/8...alemuseum3.jpg http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/4...alemuseum2.jpg http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/844...alemuseum4.jpg Renderings from Jones Studio Quote:
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HooverDam, I agree that the ASU Art Museum is an unfriendly edifice! I have a few photos of his Arizona Science Center, which was under renovation when I visited last November:
Museum: Arizona Science Center Location: Phoenix, Arizona Architect: Antoine Predock Completed: 1997 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/xDYx1F.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/Ad7gbp.jpg All photos taken by geomorph in 2010. |
Mediterranean Revivalism
Museum: Ripley's Believe It Or Not! (housed in Warden Castle)
Location: St. Augustine, Florida Architect: ? Completed: 1887 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/M5ONpX.jpg Museum: Lightner Museum (housed in original Hotel Alcazar and shares building with City Hall) Location: St. Augustine, Florida Architect: Carrere and Hastings Completed: 1887 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/Jo3I6y.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/j1WKtL.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/hQqFoC.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/izDa5V.jpg All photos taken by geomorph in 2009. |
Keep it going please! :) I am LOVING this thread. I will try to post a few pictures up when I get the chance.
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Museum: Honolulu Academy of Arts (original building)
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii Architect: Bertram G. Goodhue Completed: 1927 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/pzahrb.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/z8yMNt.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/xp0Zun.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/57IGqC.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/AwVeKq.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/oEbKua.jpg All photos taken by geomorph in 2008. |
Museum: Heard Museum
Location: Phoenix, Arizona Architect: ? (assumed various) Completed: 1929-99 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/tgnFPO.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/aKg8l2.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/wdd47O.jpg All photos taken by geomorph in 2010. |
Museum: Pueblo Grande Museum
Location: Phoenix, Arizona Architect: ? Completed: 1974, 1995 expansion http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/EUovr5.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/Wzq5rM.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/rFgjqC.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/JRIh7w.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/IOxYjS.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/gc57AT.jpg All photos taken by geomorph in 2010. |
Museum: National Gallery of Canada
Location: Ottawa, Ontario Architect: Moshe Safdie Completed: 1988 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/pCz5Eq.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/bJ9t5G.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/XC9hnk.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/wreR0k.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/zyNpd6.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/UC9NVL.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/ZlzyiW.jpg All photos taken by geomorph in 2008. |
Museum: Pointe A Calliere Museum, Eperon Building
Location: Montreal, Quebec Architect: Dan Hanganu Completed: 1992 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/miN4yM.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/yqCr1K.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/7su9WP.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/9zEYD4.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/8wqLPo.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/WcXwWf.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/iy6Rfe.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/bdGrz3.jpg All photos taken by geomorph in 2008. |
Museum: Musee de la Civilisation
Location: Quebec City, Quebec Architect: Belzile, Brassard, Galienne, Lavoie & Sungur Incesulu and Moshe Safdie, Desnoyers and Mercure Completed: 1988 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/Aa6S7B.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/wUdGpw.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/BRDALc.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/qj743n.jpg All photos taken by geomorph in 2008. |
Museum: The Bata Shoe Museum
Location: Toronto, Ontario Architect: Raymond Moriyama Completed: 1995 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/KDZ5jO.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/m48Eml.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/SfrfHA.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/7drRXN.jpg All photos taken by geomorph in 2008. |
Museum: Independence Seaport Museum
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Architect: Reed Axelrod Architects Completed: 1995 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/OTT8dF.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/OjDvhw.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/DgiLX5.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/aE5vGB.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/OdQigQ.jpg All photos taken by geomorph in 2009. |
Museum: Phoenix Art Museum
Location: Phoenix, Arizona Architect: Alden Dow and Blaine Drake (1959 original and 1965 addition), Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (1996 and 2006 additions) Completed: 1959-2006 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/adJRhw.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/VGvLu6.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/HNSeFT.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/ZLFbAB.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/eyEoHP.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/MzLQfh.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/0uNKZl.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/ehI26p.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/BB9mQY.jpg All photos taken by geomorph in 2010. |
Bright and Small-scale
Museum: Bass Museum of Art, New Wing
Location: Miami Beach, Florida Architect: Arata Isozaki Completed: 2001 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/CehSwl.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/sqIscS.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/3X2ulM.jpg Museum: Children's Museum of Denver Location: Denver, Colorado Architect: Barker Rinker Seacat Architecture Completed: 1984 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/UAJXu8.jpg Museum: The Museo Alameda Location: San Antonio, Texas Architect: Jackson & Ryan Architects Completed: 2007 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/Ch5WwJ.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/BJP4uv.jpg All photos taken by geomorph in 2007-2010. |
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I agree that it's good when museums are used to give a new lease of life to an old building, and use the building almost as one of the exhibits. This train museum in Swindon, England is housed in an old train factory. http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/s...Trains/048.jpg My pic |
Museum: Hockey Hall of Fame (housed in former Bank of Montreal)
Location: Toronto, Ontario Architect: Frank Darling and S. George Curry (bank) Completed: ? (bank), 1993 (museum) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/yFp7G0.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/vwPWaP.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/tTmKYv.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/fxR4Rn.jpg All photos taken by geomorph in 2008. |
Museum: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (housed in former Central Library)
Location: San Francisco, California Architect: George W. Kelham (Original Building), Gae Aulenti (restoration and modern additions) Completed: 1917 (Central Library), 2003 (museum) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/eACymM.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/xqCCIy.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/IWGNoQ.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/eKZb4w.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/vB9Kd8.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/QNyJI9.jpg All photos taken by geomorph in 2011. |
All pictures are mine unless otherwise noted.
Museum: Biltmore House Location: Asheville, North Carolina Architect: Richard Morris Hunt Completed: 1895 http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...Biltmore41.jpg http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...Biltmore28.jpg http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...Biltmore26.jpg Aerial view (Source.) http://www.travelforboomers.com/wp-c...ore_estate.jpg Museum: Smith-McDowell House Museum Location: Asheville, North Carolina Architect: Unknown -- possibly Ephraim Clayton Completed: c. 1840 http://www.romanticasheville.com/ima.../smithpano.jpg (Source.) http://www.romanticasheville.com/ima...smithpano2.jpg (Source.) Museum: Asheville Art Museum (Pack Library wing) Location: Asheville, North Carolina Architect: Edward Tilton Completed: 1925 http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...0Art/Art17.jpg http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...0Art/Art16.jpg http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...kFriday_27.jpg A 16th Century frieze that decorates the lobby. http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...ackPlace10.jpg Museum: Asheville Art Museum (Pack Place wing) Location: Asheville, North Carolina Architect: Barbara Field Completed: 1992 http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...ackPlace00.jpg |
Museum: Hunter Museum of American Art (Faxon-Thomas Mansion)
Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee Architect: Mead and Garfield Firm Completed: 1904 http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...tanooga131.jpg http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...tanooga156.jpg http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...tanooga152.jpg http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...tanooga154.jpg Museum: Hunter Museum of American Art (1970's wing) Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee Architect: Derthick, Henley and Wilkerson Firm Completed: 1975 http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...tanooga133.jpg http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...tanooga134.jpg Museum: Hunter Museum of American Art (2005 wing) Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee Architect: Randall Stout Completed: 2005 http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...tanooga113.jpg http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...tanooga148.jpg http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...tanooga147.jpg |
Museum: Florence Museum of Art, Science, and History
Location: Florence, South Carolina Architect: Sanborn Chase Completed: 1939 http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...Florence98.jpg http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...lorence103.jpg http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...Florence99.jpg Museum: Greenville County Museum of Art Location: Greenville, South Carolina Architect: Craig Gaulden Davis Firm Completed: 1974 http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...enville118.jpg |
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