Art Museum will unveil expansion plan Tuesday
By David Bonetti
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
11/02/2007
The St. Louis Art Museum will unveil the design of the museum’s expansion at a meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the museum’s auditorium. Architect David Chipperfield and museum director Brent Benjamin will lead the presentation. The audience will be given the opportunity to ask questions.
Chipperfield, a London-based architect, was recently awarded the annual James Stirling Prize of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Great Britain’s highest honor in the field. Chipperfield won for his design for the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach am Neckar in Germany. He was also a finalist for his design for the America’s Cup Building in Valencia, Spain. Only six buildings altogether were shortlisted for the prize.
In the United States, Chipperfield has recently completed the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa, and the Anchorage Museum of History and Art in Alaska.
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