The San Antonio Museum of Artwork (SAMA) has introduced that Herzog & de Meuron has been chosen to helm a complete campus plan for the comparatively younger establishment, which was established in 1981 throughout the metropolis’s historic former Lone Star Brewery complicated. Referring to the mission as a “transformative alternative to develop a visionary blueprint” for the museum’s 13-acre, citadel-like campus alongside San Antonio’s River Stroll, SAMA director Emily Bellew Neff mentioned in a press release that the purpose of the plan is to “improve the customer expertise and strengthen our connection to the group.”
The Swiss agency, based by Pritzker Prize winners Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, was chosen for its experience in overseeing each main cultural commissions and bold, adaptive reuse–targeted transformations of disused buildings. Lots of the agency’s finest recognized tasks sit on the intersection of these two areas, akin to London’s Tate Fashionable, the Park Avenue Armory in New York, Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn, and Museum Küppersmühle in Duisberg, Germany.
Whereas the total scope of Herzog & de Meuron’s plan is forthcoming, the museum says it is going to “prioritize accessibility, improve artwork storage amenities, enhance outside areas, and foster a sustainable, community-centered setting.”
Opened by Adolphus Busch in 1884 as the primary large-scale mechanized brewery in Texas, the Lone Star Brewerly complicated is positioned at a key level on the San Antonio River between town’s downtown to the south and the fast-growing Pearl District to the north. Herzog & de Meuron will play up this strategic location by “amplifying the attraction and significance” of its assemblage of Romanesque masonry buildings and outside public squares, guaranteeing that they continue to be a key a part of the museum expertise. (CambridgeSeven led the unique conservation of the brewery right into a museum house within the late Nineteen Seventies/early ‘80s.)
“We’re thrilled to collaborate on defining an inclusive, sustainable and forward-looking imaginative and prescient for SAMA, which takes full benefit of its beneficiant outside areas, its panorama, its spectacular historic buildings and its wide-ranging artwork assortment,” mentioned Ascan Mergenthaler, senior accomplice at Herzog & de Meuron.
The agency’s Austin-based group will lead the mission, working in collaboration with government architect Web page. Herzog & de Meuron’s first Texas mission, a mixed-use district in Austin incorporating mass timber known as Sixth&Blanco, broke floor in October 2024. Web page can also be a collaborator on that mission.
In different Herzog & de Meuron-related museum information, earlier this month the Vancouver Artwork Gallery revealed that it had invited 14 corporations to formally submit proposals for a brand new, purpose-built dwelling for Western Canada’s largest artwork museum. Herzog & de Meuron was initially appointed for the mission in 2014. Nevertheless, late final 12 months, with development already underway, the museum nixed the agency’s profitable design because of considerations over swelling prices, main the agency and the museum to formally sever ties. Diamond Schmitt, Hariri Pontarini Architects, KPMB, Patkau Architects, and 5468796 are among the many (largely Canadian) corporations which have been requested by the museum to take part in designing an altogether new constructing.
