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IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT
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July 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright Project Management Institute Jul 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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THE TRUSTEES AT THE NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART DIDN'T JUST WANT MORE ROOM. THEY WANTED TO MAKE A STATEMENT.
A museum is more than just a building. It's the sum of a culture's ideas, dreams and imagination-its heart and soul. So, when trustees at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, a Kansas City, Missouri, USA, institution since 1933, decided to expand the gallery space, they wanted to create an addition that dazzled the senses and transformed the mind. The new building not only had to complement the existing neoclassic structure built of rose cast limestone, but be so very extraordinary that it would make the city, the nation and even the world take notice.
"One goal was to design and ...
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