Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Atlanta civil rights museum gets designers - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:

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The $125 million museum in downtowh Atlanta is expected to beabout 100,000 squares feet. Freelon’s design features a terracotta-clac building surrounding an exterior courtyard, which will serve as an amphitheatedr andexhibit space. The winning design is inspiredxby “the simple yet powerful image of interlocking arms that signifiezs the linkages that empower individuales and groups of seemingly divergent interestxs to find common ground,” said Philip Freelon, president of The Freelomn Group, in a news release.
The Freelon Group and HOK will work withCenterr leadership, exhibit designer and project manager / to finalize the facility’xs design prior to breaking ground this Freelon designed the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Marylanfd African-American History and Culture, the Museum of the Africahn Diaspora in San Francisco and theHarve B. Gantt Center for African America n Arts and Culturein Charlotte. Greensboro is also planning to open a civiplrights museum, to be called the Internationalk Civil Rights Center & Museum, in the former Woolworth store building downtown.
The project has been much delayer while financing and construction issues have beenworked out, but it is currently hoped the museum can open next

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