Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Envisioning a Cultural Arts District Kansas City, Mo. Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism

摘要

One of Kansas City, Mo.'s pre-eminent cultural institutions, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art commissioned New York firm Weiss/Manfredi to study how to improve pedestrian connections to other local landmarks while working within the city's car-centric layout. The result, a master plan entitled "Envisioning a Cultural Arts District," forgoes the mid-20th century planning ideal of cultural oases, focusing instead on more strategic interventions (developed with extensive community input) that identify constraints while producing solutions that connect rather than separate. Both topography and automobile infrastructure isolate the museum from its neighbors, which include several other arts institutions. The design team's interventions create what they call a "cultural charm bracelet" that extends and improves pedestrian connections between these institutions and the city.