Dallas -- Perot Museum of Science & Nature

From: Dallas Urban Core
September 20, 2009

Renderings and a building model for the 180,000-square-foot Perot Museum of Nature & Science at Victory Park have been unveiled for public view. The $185-million project has a fall 2009 groundbreaking and is slated for an early 2013 opening.

The facility, which is being built on just under five acres at 1155 Broom St., is less like a typical museum with Doric columns adorning the front, and more like a floating cube over Victory Park; a cube blending in with the landscape and allowing a great deal of light into the spacious interior. Designed by Pritzker Prize Laureate Thom Mayne and his firm, Morphosis Architects of Los Angeles, the 14-story, 170-foot-tall building contains an acre of rolling roofscape comprised of rock and native drought-resistant grasses, five floors of public space containing 10 exhibition galleries and a children's museum and a multi-media digital cinema that can seat 300 people.

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