Grand Rapids Art Museum – A Museum, Civic Space, and Community

As a civic landmark, The Grand Rapids Art Museum has been designed to inspire and revitalize its local neighborhood, and to create an important public place as a gathering center for the City. The Museum opens itself to its adjacent civic park with fingerlike spaces extending into the park. A public dining court and terrace, with a small pocket park, and a large, cantilevered entry canopy reaches toward the park, blurring the edge of the museum and public civic space. Them main galleries located towards the rear occupy both first and second floor with three “lantern galleries” with diffuse natural light. The Grand Rapids Art Museum was the first LEED Gold certified museum in the world.

In Collaboration with wHY Architecture | Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan | Status: Completed, 2007 | Size (ft2): 127,000 ft2 | Client: Grand Rapids Art Museum, Director Celeste Adams | Awards: 2008 Green Site Project of the Year Award – Concrete Construction Magazine