Las Vegas Museum of Art reveals new Details of Francis Kéré’s Design
The Las Vegas Museum of Art (LVMA) today released new details of its 60,000-square-foot building, to be designed by Francis Kéré, Founder of Kéré Architecture, and built in downtown Symphony Park. Designed as a gathering place for community and a beacon for the cultural world, LVMA will be the city’s first freestanding art museum, serving more than 2.4 million year-round Las Vegas residents and tens of millions visitors from around the globe.
Kéré’s design draws inspiration from the Mojave Desert and Las Vegas’s rich history of modernist architecture. Its façade features a mosaic of locally sourced stone, wrapping the building in the colors of the surrounding Red Rock Mountains. A canopy extending far beyond the roof will provide a shaded “front porch” for the entry plaza. A signature grand staircase, visible through the entry level’s floor-to-ceiling windows, will make the interior core into a canyon from which visitors will ascend toward galleries that seem to float on the second floor. The architect has teamed with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) as the architect of record.
The Las Vegas Museum of Art (LVMA) today released new details of its 60,000-square-foot building, to be designed by Francis Kéré, Founder of Kéré Architecture, and built in downtown Symphony Park. Designed as a gathering place for community and a beacon for the cultural world, LVMA will be the city’s first freestanding art museum, serving more than 2.4 million year-round Las Vegas residents and tens of millions visitors from around the globe.
Kéré’s design draws inspiration from the Mojave Desert and Las Vegas’s rich history of modernist architecture. Its façade features a mosaic of locally sourced stone, wrapping the building in the colors of the surrounding Red Rock Mountains. A canopy extending far beyond the roof will provide a shaded “front porch” for the entry plaza. A signature grand staircase, visible through the entry level’s floor-to-ceiling windows, will make the interior core into a canyon from which visitors will ascend toward galleries that seem to float on the second floor. The architect has teamed with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) as the architect of record.
