4 Final Designs for New Royal Alberta Museum - Edmonton, AB

August 18, 2011 - Four designs submitted for new Royal Alberta Museum

http://www.infrastructure.alberta.ca/3688.htm

Design options open for public view and comment

A new Royal Alberta Museum will be built in downtown Edmonton starting this year. It will be a provincial museum well-equipped for the future – a museum with the room, accessibility, and connections it needs to become an iconic institution respected around the world. A competitive bidding process to hire a private sector consortium to design and build the new museum is underway.

Diamond & Schmitt Architects of Ontario, HIP Architects of Edmonton, Haley Sharpe Design (Museum Planner) of the United Kingdom

Laing O’Rourke of the United Kingdom, IBI Group Architects Engineers of Alberta, Richard Meier & Partners of New York, Solomon & Bauer (Museum Planners) of Watertown, MA

Dialog of Alberta, Lundholm Associates Architects of Ontario (Museum Planner)


Moriyama & Teshima Architects of Ontario and Architecture/Arndt Tkalcic Bengert of Alberta, Maki & Associates of Japan (Architecture), Museum Planning Partners of Ontario

Yawn. I vote for none of the above. Just more of the same boxes with glass. When will Canadian ar bite ts do something creative or inspiring instead of doing the same boring designs over and over ad nauseum.

There's something rather Badlands-esque about badass D+S's design.

http://www.infrastructure.alberta.ca/Content/RAM/Production/ELLISDON_RAM_3.jpg

When I looked at the first one, I figured the rest would be better. How wrong was I? The rest are very bland. I hope D & S wins.

Dialog/Cohos Evamy won. Rather yawn as museum design goes - look like something Infrastructure Ontario would choose.

AoD

I agree with US and like D&S's the best.

AlvinofDiaspar said:

Dialog/Cohos Evamy won. Rather yawn as museum design goes - look like something Infrastructure Ontario would choose.

AoD

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Yes, it look like a nice high school.