WINGSPAN
  • Home
  • About
    • Leadership Team
    • Vision & Values
    • News
  • Residential
    • Buckingham Place
    • Sixteen|30 Luxury Community
    • Hub13 >
      • Hub 13 Community Page
    • The Hansen
    • Niche at North Hyde Park
  • Mixed Use
    • 20 West Apartments
    • Maple Street Lofts
    • Jade at North Hyde Park
  • Land Development
  • Contact Us

George Lucas selects Architectural Team for Art Museum in Lakefront, Chicago

8/17/2014

0 Comments

 
Picture
After a world-wide search, American film director George Lucas has finally selected Beijing-based firm MAD and Chicago-based Studio Gang Architects to design his proposed Lucas Museum of Narrative Art (LMNA) art museum on Chicago’s lakefront.

While Chinese architect Ma Yansong’s MAD firm is selected for the principal design and overall concept of the LMNA building, the Studio Gang will design the landscape and create a bridge at LMNA’s own expense to connect the LMNA to Northerly Island – a former airport runway that the firm has spent four years transforming into a park. Also Chicago-based VOA Associates will serve as the executive architect and lead the implementation of MAD’s design.

“We are bringing together some of the top architects in the world to ensure that our museum experience begins long before a visitor ever enters the building,” said George Lucas, founder of the LMNA. “I am thrilled with the architectural team’s vision for the building and the surrounding green space. I look forward to presenting our design to the Chicago community,” he was quoted saying in lucasmuseum.org website.
“It is a gift to be able to design the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in a city so rich with architectural history,” said Mr. Ma Yansong.

“In keeping with the Northerly Island ethos, our design goal will be to create a combined ecological and urban habitat,” stated Studio Gang principal Jeanne Gang.

“We will take the concept design and create a digital sculpture that will serve as the blueprint for construction,” said Michael Toolis, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of VOA Associates. “Each aspect of the museum will be digitally created using technology that enables us to test daylight, create interactive models and examine how the design performs in different environments.”
​
The design for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will be introduced in late 2014.

0 Comments

    Author

    ​Chris Coleman, VP of Development at Wingspan, periodically shares his thoughts and observations on property development news. 

    Picture

    Archives

    December 2020
    November 2020
    August 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    October 2019
    August 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    August 2014

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Wingspan Development Group

​Illinois Office: 
1001 Feehanville Dr. 
Mount Prospect, IL 60056 
Phone: (847) 394-6200 

Fax: (847) 394-6205 ​

Picture
Wisconsin Office: 
3880 W. Wheelhouse Rd.  
Suite B 
Milwaukee, WI 53208 
Phone: (262) 513-9300 
Fax: (262) 513-9400 ​
Picture
Picture

For inquiries and comments, please contact:

​Christopher Coleman
​
Vice President of Development
Phone: 847.394.6200 | Fax: 847.394.6205 

Submit
Website by Newmedia Design Solutions, Inc.
  • Home
  • About
    • Leadership Team
    • Vision & Values
    • News
  • Residential
    • Buckingham Place
    • Sixteen|30 Luxury Community
    • Hub13 >
      • Hub 13 Community Page
    • The Hansen
    • Niche at North Hyde Park
  • Mixed Use
    • 20 West Apartments
    • Maple Street Lofts
    • Jade at North Hyde Park
  • Land Development
  • Contact Us