Finalist (Diller Scofidio + Renfro), The Reimagining the Dallas Museum of Art International Design Competition

Diller Scofidio + Renfro is one of the finalists in the competition organized by the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) and Malcolm Reading Consultants (MRC) to design additional gallery spaces to house the expanding collection of the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA).

Edward Larrabee Barnes’s 1984 DMA reflects the values of its time—aloof and sequestered from the everyday lives of Dallas citizens. The new expansion will embrace the public. It will allow the DMA to show its growing collection in new ways, reaching across diverse audiences. It will engage the open sites to the north and south to create two new front doors that bookend the Museum, each visually porous and bustling with activity.

Facing Klyde Warren Park, a new contemporary gallery will cap a civic hub where the lobby, lecture hall, theater, education space, store, and cafe converge. This new face of the DMA will be fully visible from the park and the approach up Woodall Rodgers. To the south, a new restaurant and event pavilion will suspend an operable roof that will shade and provide infrastructural support for open-air public programming, while connecting with the Arts District at large.

For detailed information: https://competitions.malcolmreading.com/dallasmuseumofart/gallery