![]() ![]() Special performances might take place in the Brown Foundation Plaza and Glassell rooftop garden. A fine restaurant opens to the Cullen Sculpture Garden, a café to Bissonnet, and galleries open to Main Street. ![]() We envision this new ground level as an activating social space open to the community and able to stay open longer hours than the two gallery floors above. The largest garden court, at the corner of Bissonnet and Main Street, marks a central entry point on the new campus. Seven gardens slice the perimeter, marking points of entry and punctuating the elevations. The new museum architecture of the new Nancy and Rich Kinder Building is characterized by porosity, opening the ground floor at all elevations. All the street edges of the museum building will be open and inviting, celebrating qualities of an urban campus. We envision the new Brown Foundation Plaza as a space of activity, complementing these spaces of contemplation and reflection, extending the inspiring character of the new MFAH all along Montrose Street. The Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden by Isamu Noguchi is horizontal and slow-moving. ![]() Visitors arriving by car will begin the museum experience in a lower arrival hall and sculpture court, directly connected to the new lobby and the Caroline Wiess Law Building. To realize a horizontal campus unity, all parking will be below ground. A public plaza will be integrated with the new 93,000-square-foot Glassell School of Art, which was completed in 2018. The new 164,000-square-foot museum building shaped by gardens of horizontal porosity is open on all sides. ![]() We envision a new horizontal extension of landscape as a unifying character of the entire Fayez S. Today the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has a unique chance to expand and unite its campus as an integral experience open to the community.
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