The Barnes Foundation
Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
Along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the Barnes museum presents an unassuming air, with crisp, elegant stone detailing recalling the Modernist work of Philadelphia architect Louis Kahn. Contained within it are the galleries re-created from the museum in Merion.
Photo © Michael Moran
At the west end of the Barnes, the light canopy cantilevers over a terrace. A limestone rainscreen is attached to the steel-framed gallery building (at right) and a poured concrete pavilion wing (at left).
Photo © Michael Moran
On the second floor, the architects have given gallery ceilings a very different treatment with cyma curve plaster moldings and clerestories of acid-etched glass.
Photo © Michael Moran
The shaped ceilings in ancillary first floor galleries echo the barrel vaults of the galleries in Merion
On the first floor of the wing containing the Barnes collection, the main hall’s coves feature Henri Matisse’s “The Dance” murals. Williams and Tsien kept the proportions, scale, and placement of the installation intact, redesigning the cornices and moldings, lighting, and window coverings. The floor is Tennessee marble. This main gallery is oriented to the Parkway; visitors can view the murals from the balcony.
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