North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

January 21, 2011 Category: Cultural, Public Buildings

North Carolina Museum of Art that located in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States, was designed by Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. In designing the museum’s West building, Phifer uses scale, organization, and materials to create a building that celebrates art, drawing on history and his own work for inspiration. In choosing to make the building a single storey pavilion, Phifer drew inspiration from the Greeks and Romans, who ‘recognized the intelligence of creating a flat landscape to organize an ensemble of buildings’. In deciding how to exhibit sculpture, he turned to Scarpa’s Canova Museum for inspiration, a building that presents sculpture in an amazing, and daring way to achieve a powerful connection to natural light and nature. And in designing the building’s vaulted coffers, which flood the galleries with soft, filtered light, Kahn’s Kimball Museum was the inspiration. source

North Carolina Museum of Art design by Thomas Phifer and Partners