A major cultural construction program in Pennsylvania will combine new museum space, historic-building renovations and extensive landscape improvements as the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art moves forward with a campus transformation. Turner-Wohlsen Joint Venture has been selected to deliver the approximately $100 million project.
The construction program will add a 40,000-square-foot museum building designed by Kengo Kuma & Associates in association with Schwartz/Silver Architects Inc.
The existing Mill building will also be renovated. The work is intended to retain the historic structure while updating its visitor facilities and incorporating a new interactive exhibit.
Together, the two buildings will operate as a unified museum connected by the surrounding landscape.
The broader campus plan extends beyond the museum buildings. The project will transform the surrounding landscape into a 325-acre public preserve and garden designed by Field Operations.
Approximately 10 miles of trails will connect the museum buildings and create a continuous route through the expanded grounds. The landscape program will also connect visitors with the studios associated with American artists N.C. Wyeth and Andrew Wyeth.
Interpretive elements along the trails will address the site's environmental stewardship and artistic history, while the preserve will provide additional space for education and public access.
The Brandywine project illustrates a large-scale cultural development that combines vertical construction with historic preservation and significant landscape infrastructure. For construction stakeholders, the program also demonstrates the coordination required when new institutional facilities, renovations and public-facing site improvements are delivered as a single campus investment.
Source: Turner Construction.
