Museum for African Art / Robert Stern Architects
As one of Robert A. M. Stern Architects, LLP‘s masterpiece design, The Museum of African Art will finally find a permanent home along Manhattan’s “Museum Mile” and will be open to the public next April. This makes Manhattan’s Upper East Side grows to become an internationally recognized preeminent source for exhibitions and publications related to historical and contemporary African art. . The Museum for African Art is located on Fifth Avenue at 110th Street, at the northeast corner of Central Park. The museum is intended not only as a place for art but also as a gathering place for people, both for the vast African diaspora and for the vibrant cultural community that is New York.
The museum is designed in close conjunction with the 19-story residential tower that houses it. It owns and occupy about 75,000 square feet in a mixed-use joint-development project. The building’s L-shaped plan cradles a plaza on the circle facing west toward Central Park. The strong character of the museum’s trapezoidal windows with bronze-painted aluminum mullions set into pre-cast concrete panels on the museum’s north and west facades suggests in an abstract way woven patterns.
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