New Museum Developments
The Miami Science Museum is seeking qualifications from entities with demonstrated experience in construction management. The selected Construction Manager will work with the Museum, Architects and Project Manager to provide Pre-Construction and Construction Management Services. The Miami Science Museum will make available the Request for Qualifications on August 18, 2009. To obtain a copy of the RFQ, contact Scott Lewis at oppenheimlewis@miamisci.org. All qualification packages are due to the Miami Science Museum, 3280 S. Miami Ave Miami, FL 33129 by 2pm EST on September 15, 2009.
Live Weather Data
The Museum has installed a weather station at the downtown location for the new Miami Science Museum, to provide information about the amounts of sunlight, wind and rain available at the new site. This information is being used by the project’s architects and engineers to design a sustainable building that maximizes use of these renewable energy resources.
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ew Miami Science Museum
With the passage of the General Obligation Bond in November 2004, the people of Miami-Dade County approved $175 million to create a new Miami Science Museum as part of a new cultural quarter in a revitalized city center. The City of Miami has also passed a resolution to provide 4 acres of downtown's Bicentennial Park for the Museum and issued $3.5 million to support the new Museum's site development. Alongside our sister project, the new Miami Art Museum, and in partnership with the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, Museum Park will combine science, art and history, in an unparalleled waterfront experience at the heart of the renaissance of downtown Miami.
London firm named to design science museum
The architectural competition to design the new, $275 million Miami Science Museum in Bicentennial Park concluded Wednesday in a near photo finish, with the museum's selection committee ranking as its first choice the London-based firm of Grimshaw Architects. The close vote disappointed some in the audience who had urged the eight-member panel to select 2004 Pritzker Prize winner Zaha Hadid, who ranked a close second. San Francisco-based architect Steven Holl's firm was ranked third by the committee, which met in a public forum over two days at the museum on South Miami Avenue.
