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Snøhetta wins competition to design new El Paso Children's Museum

Snøhetta is on a roll right now: besides being recently selected to lead the ambitious expansion of Omaha's Joslyn Art Museum, winning the competition for the renovation of the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers in France yesterday, the firm was also just chosen as lead designer for the new $60 million El Paso Children’s Museum project.

An international architectural design competition launched by the museum and El Paso Community Foundation had invited three firms—TEN Arquitectos, KoningEizenberg, and Snøhetta—to submit concepts that could then be presented to the community as part of a public selection process.

The El Paso Children’s Museum hopes to reach children and families from El Paso, Ciudad Juarez, the American southwest, and the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora.

Final designs for the museum are now in development, and completion is scheduled for late 2021.