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New museums

promenades overlooking the sea. The Louvre has agreed the general public. This is the complex's third iteration
to loan its name to the Abu Dhabi museum for 30 years after a fire destroyed the original Buffalo State plane-
and 6 months, temporary exhibitions for 15 years, and tarium in 1978. Rebuilt in 1982, it was given the name
artworks for 10 years. Objects from the museum’s col- Whitworth Ferguson in recognition of a donation from
lection and loans will range from the ancient times to Whitworth Ferguson Sr and his family. Once complete,
modern, from a Bactrian princess of the end of the 3rd the Whitworth Ferguson Planetarium will include a 35ft
millennium B.C to Ai Weiwei. (10.6m) diameter projection dome with state-of-the-art
digital and analogue projectors and seating for 48 peo-
● The Urban Development Corporation of the Brus- ple. The planetarium itself will be housed inside of a
sels-Capital Region is converting Europe’s largest car fac- dome containing a Fibonacci sequence pattern, a theme
tory, Citroën Yser Garage, into the largest new museum which carries on through the rest of the building. The
in Brussels since the beginning of the 20th century. Its final phase of development will connect the main en-
name will be Citroen Cultural Center und it will contain a trance and lobby housing the planetarium to the three
15,000sq m (161,500sq ft) Pompidou outpost, a 10,000sq story atrium building built in the project’s first phase.
m (107,600sq ft) home for the International Centre for Created by architects Cannon Design, with LPCiminelli
Urbanism, Architecture and Landscape and 10,000sq m acting as general contractors, phase three of the mul-
of public spaces for cultural, educational and recreation- ti-year project includes the creation of the planetarium,
al activities. The whole project, which will cost around as well as a new greenhouse, labs, classrooms and lec-
€125m, is scheduled to open in 2020. The full shortlist ture halls. The lobby, which the planetarium sits in, will
is: 51N4E / Caruso St John Architects, ADVVT / AGWA / also include a café and a seating area.
6a architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro / JDS Architects,
Lhoas & Lhoas / Ortner & Ortner, NOA / EM2N / Sergison
Bates, Office / Christ & Gantenbein as well as OMA.

Work starting on new planetarium development for Buffalo
State. Photo: Cannon Design
Yser Garage area on the banks of the Bassin Vergote.
© Google Earth Below: The new fassade. Source: institution

● Buffalo State College in New York State expands: built
in 1962, the original building had become inadequate to
house the college’s science program. Rather than merely
rehabilitate the existing 171,000 squareft building, the
college undertook a multi-phased expansion project to
create a science complex designed for interdisciplinary
collaboration—one that consolidates science depart-
ments into a single facility, establishing a hub for sci-
ence, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)
curriculum.

The Buffalo State College in New York State, US, is about
to enter the third phase of a US$35.5m expansion to
its Science and Mathematics Complex (SAMC), with the
plans to include a new planetarium open to members of

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