Memphis Art Museum

The Memphis Art Museum is a new riverfront cultural campus designed by Herzog & de Meuron with local firm archimania as architect of record and landscape by Olin, perched atop a reconstructed bluff above the Mississippi River at Front Street and Union Avenue in downtown Memphis. The roughly 123,500-square-foot timber-structured building expands gallery space by about half over the institution's historic home and threads art through a sequence of generous public rooms: a street-level courtyard, an outdoor amphitheater, a mezzanine theater, education spaces, and a 50,000-square-foot rooftop sculpture garden with sweeping river views. Marking the relocation and rebranding of the century-old Memphis Brooks Museum of Art from Overton Park, the project is conceived as an open, accessible civic landmark that flows from the city streets down toward the water.