丨美国堪萨斯城丨Steven Holl Architects

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Kansas City, MO, United States.

This competition winning addition is composed of five interconnected structures as opposed to a single massive expansion. Traversing from the existing building across its sculpture park, the five built “lenses” form new spaces and angles of vision. From the movement through the landscape and threaded between the light openings, exhilarating new experiences of the existing Museum are formed. Circulation and exhibition merge as one can look from one level to another, from inside to outside. The “meandering” path in the sculpture garden above has its sinuous complement in open flow through the continuous level of new galleries. Glass lenses bring different qualities of light to the galleries while the sculpture garden’s pathways wind through them.

Client

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Location

Kansas City, MO, United States.

Years

1999–2007

Size

165,000 sq ft

Status

Complete

architect

Steven Holl Architects

Steven Holl (design architect)

Chris McVoy (design architect, partner in charge)

Martin Cox, Richard Tobias (project architect)

Masao Akiyoshi, Gabriela Barman-Kraemer, Matthias Blass, Molly Blieden, Elissavet Chryssochoides, Robert Edmonds, Simone Giostra, Annette Goderbauer, Mimi Hoang, Makram El-Kadi, Edward Lalonde, Li Hu, Justin Korhammer, Linda Lee, Fabian Llonch, Stephen O'Dell, Irene Vogt, Urs Vogt, Christian Wassmann (project team)

local architect

BNIM Architects

structural engineer

Guy Nordenson and Associates

associate structural engineer

Structural Engineering Associates

mechanical engineer

Ove Arup & Partners

W.L. Cassell & Associates

glass consultant

R.A. Heintges & Associates

lighting consultant

Renfro Design Group

landscape architect

Gould Evans Goodman Associates

artist

Walter De Maria

Timeline

Tirana Triennale Hybrid Lecture “Synthesis of the Arts”

April 23, 2024

Ginkgo Trees

December 15, 2021

Steven Holl Architects Celebrates 9 Year Anniversary of the Nelson Atkins Museum Opening with New Photos by Iwan Baan

June 9, 2016

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Named a Finalist for Inaugural MCHAP Prize

July 9, 2014

Steven Holl Architects’ Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Wins 2008 AIA Institute Honor Award

January 4, 2008