Glenstone Museum's Pavilions
latest project by Thomas Phifer

Glenstone Museum is one of the largest private art museums in the United States today. In late September, it has inaugurated the new expansion of its facilities, which features the Pavilions designed by Thomas Phifer of Thomas Phifer and Partners.

An area covering 20,000 sqm of exhibition space hosts the works of 52 artists, with 65 pieces selected out of the extensive collection (numbering over 1,300 works) of Emily Wei and Mitchell Rales, the museum’s owners. The architecture of the expansion, arranged across a varying configuration of buildings of different sizes, has been embedded into the landscape of the 230-acre property, with each of the Pavilions adapted to the individual requirements for the works of art exhibited within them.

Thomas Phifer

New York-based architect, designer of the new building of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, which will stand on the Defilad Square in the city centre. His most well-known commissions include the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, and the Brochstein Pavilion at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He has won a number of prestigious architecture awards, such as the Rome Prize given by the American Academy in Rome since 1921. 

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