Museum of Art
Portland
Maine
theater to the street
terracotta vessel
sculpture garden courtyard
The PMA project began as an international design competition that Lever Architecture won. Most everyone in the office helped out with the initial proposal, myself included, but it was when the schematic design phase officially started that I could really dig into the terracotta facade design. Architectural terracotta is created through a highly engineered process, yet it remains fundamentally a simple natural material made from baked clay—that's the beauty of it. The facade of the new addition highlights a tan clay body and relates to the conventional brick facade of the beloved postmodern original building by Henry Nichols Cobb.
Projected completion 2027
60,000 sf
Credits:
Work performed on behalf of Lever Architecture while under employment. Illustrations Michael Grosse and Kevin Lee, Lever Architecture