Buro Happold provides engineering services for new wing at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) opened the doors to its new wing for the Art of the Americas on November 20, 2010. Buro Happold, the international, multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy, provided structural, building services and facade engineering services in support of the project.
The Art of the Americas Wing, as well as the Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Family Courtyard, are the focal points of the MFA‘s transformational expansion and renovation project, planned and designed by architects Foster + Partners (London).
The new Wing allows for the display of more than 5,000 works from the Museum‘s American collections, more than doubling the number previously on view.
It represents the most expansive initiative focused on American art and culture happening in the world today, broadening the definition to include works from North, Central, and South America that span the course of three millennia, up to the late 20th century.
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