February 2009
Foster and Partners has made the shortlist by The Smithsonian and will be working in collaboration with Harry Robinson FAIA, associate architects Blackburn Architects, landscape designer Michel Desvigne and URS on a remake of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
The museum is scheduled to be constructed on a five-acre plot of land on Washington DC’s Constitution Avenue between the Washington Monument and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
Total project cost for designing, constructing and installing exhibitions in the new museum is estimated at about $500 million, of which one-half will be provided by Congress. The Smithsonian will raise the remainder.
Construction of the building is expected to begin in 2012 and open to the public in 2015.
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