Plans for the 26,000-square-foot Statue of Liberty Museum on Liberty Island were approved earlier this week, with crews holding a groundbreaking ceremony at the site yesterday, Curbed NY reported. The main feature of the FXFOWLE Architects-designed structure, of course, will be its museum, which will include a mural called The Liberty Star, the Immersive Theater, the Engagement Gallery, and the Inspiration Gallery. There will also be a bookstore and administrative offices. The project is a joint effort by The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc., and the National Park Service. Openning is expected in 2019.
Statue of Liberty Museum. Rendering by FXFOWLE Architects.
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Museum arrives in Statue of Liberty, disembarrass with grass, trees and water without dislike.
An excruciatingly overwrought, and tortured piece of ‘Portland skater’, showoff, ‘pseudo-naturalist’, ‘post-industrial’ kitsch —- not to mention what, in its gratuitous and cacophonous complexity has to be a bear of a construction job and a guaranteed budget-busting extravaganza.
Inappropriate in image, theme and feeling to the program and site.
A simple standing-seam weathered copper or slate-roofed pavillion / shed in the manner of Olmsted-Vaux would strike the proper note, accommodate program without acrobatics and come in at half the cost of this elaborate and outrè confection.
Redesign please.
We must ask: How would an Architect Selection Committee with Bartholdi and Hunt as co-chairs and Stanford White, further advising act here?