{"id":193996,"date":"2025-12-20T00:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T00:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/193996\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T00:55:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T00:55:15","slug":"francis-keres-design-for-las-vegas-museum-of-art-revealed-the-art-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/193996\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis K\u00e9r\u00e9’s design for Las Vegas Museum of Art revealed – The Art Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Las Vegas Museum of Art<\/a> (LVMA) has unveiled renderings of its upcoming 60,000 sq. ft building, designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Francis K\u00e9r\u00e9. The museum, which is on track to open in 2029 at Symphony Park in downtown Las Vegas, will aim to mirror the surrounding landscape, drawing inspiration from the Mojave Desert and the legacy of Modernist architecture in the city.<\/p>\n

The design for the four-floor museum features a mosaic fa\u00e7ade of stone sourced from the nearby Red Rock Mountains. A shaded front porch and light-filled atrium will lead to a canyon-like grand staircase and, on the second floor, galleries will be designed to evoke the work of the Modernist architect Paul R. Williams, who made many contributions to Las Vegas. Baobab trees, a recurring metaphor in K\u00e9r\u00e9\u2019s work, symbolising gathering and community, will also inform the design.<\/p>\n

K\u00e9r\u00e9, who won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2022, is celebrated for his environmentally centred and socially engaged work. His projects include Xylem (2019), a timber pavilion envisioned as a place for reflection at the Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana; the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion in London, where he became the first African architect to design the annual commission; and regular contributions to the Venice Architecture Biennale.<\/p>\n

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Interior view of the future Las Vegas Museum of Art’s “Canyon” space \u00a9 K\u00e9r\u00e9 Architecture, Courtesy of Las Vegas Museum of Art<\/p>\n

K\u00e9r\u00e9\u2019s work has been exhibited in major institutions, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Denmark. With his latest project, K\u00e9r\u00e9 says he hopes to create a \u201cwelcoming, engaging building that reflects both aspects of Las Vegas, restoring the presence of the natural world to the iconic skyline\u201d.<\/p>\n

K\u00e9r\u00e9 added: \u201cWe see the LVMA as a gathering place where the entire community can recognise itself and take pride in a building that reflects the history and spirit of the city and the beauty of its natural surroundings.\u201d<\/p>\n

The $200m capital campaign is supported by gifts from the late philanthropist Elaine Wynn<\/a>, the museum\u2019s founding board chair and president, and donations from trustees including Dana and Greg Lee, Roger Thomas and Arthur Libera and the Elaine P. Wynn and Family Foundation. A museum representative says it has now passed the halfway mark of its capital fundraising campaign.<\/p>\n

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Aerial view of the future Las Vegas Museum of Art (centre) in Downtown Las Vegas \u00a9 K\u00e9r\u00e9 Architecture, Courtesy of Las Vegas Museum of Art<\/p>\n

The LVMA was conceived as a partnership<\/a> with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) and will showcase works from Lacma\u2019s collection, with its director and chief executive Michael Govan serving as a founding trustee. Earlier this year, the museum opened a satellite exhibition titled Family Album (until 9 January 2026) at the Las Vegas Civic Center Gallery<\/a> with loans that connected to the history of Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the grand opening, next year the museum will open a 15,000 sq. ft gallery and media lab for exhibitions, public events and educational programming. The space will be near the site of the future museum and additionally feature a retail storefront.<\/p>\n

The LVMA\u2019s executive director, Heather Harmon, says the museum will be a celebration of the city\u2019s diversity and spirit. \u201cK\u00e9r\u00e9\u2019s incomparable design unites his vision for community-centred museum design with a deep understanding of the environment that surrounds our institution,\u201d Harmon said. \u201cIt signals the dawning of a new era for culture in Las Vegas.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Las Vegas Museum of Art (LVMA) has unveiled renderings of its upcoming 60,000 sq. ft building, designed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[859,437,434,435,436,34360,438,146,85,46,20596,3995],"class_list":{"0":"post-193996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-architecture","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-artsdesign","13":"tag-building-projects","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-il","17":"tag-israel","18":"tag-las-vegas","19":"tag-museums-heritage"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}