Adjaye Associates, working with Cooper Robertson as executive architect, has designed a series of pavilions wrapped in bands of alternating rough and polished stone for the art gallery.
The new building will replace the existing 1920s, 1960s, and 80s structures and double the size of the Princeton University Art Museum.
It will contain nine galleries and two large entrance halls in cuboid boxes wrapped around the McCormick Hall, which contains the Marquand Library and will be retained.
The majority of the gallery space will be raised up onto the first floor, with the ground floor given over to access routes across the site and public spaces to create a "campus within a campus".
Alongside these galleries will be two large spaces called the Grand Hall, which will be used as a lecture hall and performance space, and the Grand Stair that is the main access to the gallery level.
In total, the museum will have six ground-floor entrances, which not only helps to make it accessible from all directions but, mitigates the impact of future pandemics.
Source: Tom Ravenscroft
