Designed by Studio Gang, the Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education and Innovation heralds a new era for New York City’s iconic American Museum of Natural History. Widely regarded as an architectural feat, with its cavernous, roughly hewn rock-like walls on the inside and an equally organic, curving Milford Pink stone façade on the outside, the museum’s new wing is wondrously tactile. There are canyon-like spaces carved out to form galleries; an abundance of natural light filtering through several new large-scale skylights; and a new grand staircase designed as a space for rest, gathering and circulation, making it a stunning new piece of public architecture created for all to enjoy.
