Arts & Entertainment

Architects of New Barnes Foundation Building Win Award

Among the accolades: the design "honors the Merion facility" by replicating "the scale, proportion, and configuration of the original Merion spaces."

The architects of the new $150 million Barnes Foundation building in Philadelphia are being honored by the American Institute of Architects' 2013 Institute Honor Awards, the institute announced Monday.

The Barnes Foundation and its world-renowned art collection, located in Merion Station until July 2011, opened to the public on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia in Spring 2012.

The new facility's design, by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, "honors the Merion facility" by replicating "the scale, proportion, and configuration of the original Merion spaces," the American Institute of Architects writes.  The Institute also notes the vastly improved lighting for the $25 billion art collection, as well as additional classroom space and the building's internal garden. 

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