HUNTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART-CHATTANOOGA, THNN

摘要

A 2005 renovation and expansion of the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, Tenn. transferred the museunYs image from that of a private space a 1905 mansion-to a civic forum for the arts. The project re-establishes the primacy of the mansion, which was first expanded in the 1970s, as the center of the museum complex and brings balance to the overall facility and site composition. The expansion rises above a limestone bluff overiooking the Ten-nessee River, and a new steel-framed pedestrian bridge forms a link from the site to the city's downtown.