.AMNH's new expansion will be a 230,000-square-foot temple dedicated to research, education and deepening the public’s connection to science, featuring a 3,000-square-foot butterfly vivarium and an immersive theater akin to Star Trek's holodeck.
Rendered view of the entrance to the GIlder Center from Theodore Roosevelt Park.Look down West 79th Street, as if searching for the sun during Manhattanhenge, and you’ll notice a giant, amoeba-like structure undulating from the side of the nearly 150-year-old original Victorian Gothic building of the American Museum of Natural History .
The center’s current shell will be covered with Milford pink granite to match the building’s facade on Central Park West. Instead of using the traditional pourable concrete, construction crews are using a sprayable version called shotcrete. Using this method eliminated the large quantities of wood wasted to create the formwork for concrete elements. Taxidermists use shotcrete to create scenes in the museum's dioramas.Architect Jeanne Gang and museum president Ellen Futter.
Currently, the City of New York has allocated funding of over $90 million to the AMNH, and another $17 million came from the state, specifically for the new center. This project also came at the cost of seven large, old trees and a quarter-acre New York City park land, formerly part of Teddy Roosevelt Park.
“So eventually all of that will come out and that will be a very sculptural space of discovery,” Futter said. “There’s no seats,” Futter said. “The purpose of this is to take the visitor inside nature, and you'll go deeper and deeper and deeper into where the human eye normally can't go.”
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