Current Construction Photos

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A Firm Footing. The museum’s dining pavilion will be a bridge suspended over the dam that separates the two bodies of water being incorporated into the museum site. In the foreground is the mat footing for the east buttress of this bridge. Beyond the footing, in the middle ground, construction workers are pouring drilled piers for the permanent collection galleries. Photo Courtesy of Liz Workman February 2008	Form Building. All of the concrete forms for the building project will be assembled in this temporary building being constructed along the west edge of the construction site. Photo Courtesy of Liz Workman February 2008	Connector Galleries. This photograph was taken at the foundation excavation level of the connector galleries at the northeast corner of the museum complex. The drilled pier in the right middle ground is one of approximately 360 piers being installed. Photo Courtesy of Liz Workman February 2008	Main Lobby. Here, we are looking down from the future site of the museum store toward the museum’s main lobby. Workers are pouring the seal slab on which micro piles and then grade beams will be constructed. Photo Courtesy of Liz Workman February 2008
Micro Piles. Approximately one fourth of the museum’s 1,200 micro piles have now been installed. These micro piles are an essential part of the museum’s foundation structure. They will provide resistance to the forces of the soil backfilled behind many of the buildings’ exterior walls. Photo Courtesy of Liz Workman February 2008	A Sense of Scale. A worker sawing concrete in an area where micro piles have recently been installed provides a good scale by which to judge the size of these piles. This area will soon be ready for grade beams to be cast. Photo Courtesy of Liz Workman February 2008	Taking Shape. The graceful curves of the administration building (foreground) and museum store (middle ground) east exterior walls are now clearly visible. Grade beam reinforcing encapsulates the micro piles along this section of the administration building wall. Photo Courtesy of Liz Workman February 2008	Completed Grade Beam. Moving further south along the east wall of the administration building, we see a large section of completed grade beam. Photo Courtesy of Liz Workman February 2008

Model Photos

View from the North Copyright John Horner View from the North Copyright John Horner	View from the Northwest Copyright John Horner View from the Northwest Copyright John Horner	Top aerial view left to right - North to South Copyright John Horner Top aerial view left to right - North to South Copyright John Horner	View from the Southwest Copyright John Horner View from the Southwest Copyright John Horner
View from the Northwest Copyright John Horner View from the Northwest Copyright John Horner	View from the Upstream Copyright John Horner View from Upstream Copyright John Horner

Perspective Photos

View from within the temporary exhibitions building (along the lower pond) Copyright Moshe Safdie and Associates, Inc. View from within the temporary exhibitions building (along the lower pond) Copyright Moshe Safdie and Associates, Inc.	Copyright Moshe Safdie and Associates, Inc. Copyright Moshe Safdie and Associates, Inc.	View from the visitor orientation area to the lower pond Copyright Moshe Safdie and Associates, Inc. View from the visitor's orientation area to the lower pond Copyright Moshe Safdie and Associates, Inc..
View from outside the temporary exhibitions building Copyright Moshe Safdie and Associates, Inc. View from outside the temporary exhibitions building Copyright Moshe Safdie and Associates, Inc.	Copyright Moshe Safdie and Associates, Inc. View from outside the temporary exhibitions building Copyright Moshe Safdie and Associates, Inc.

Building Plans

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Context Site Plan Copyright Moshe Safdie and Associates, Inc. Context Site Plan Copyright Moshe Safdie and Associates, Inc.