A Vision Realized: Rights Museum Comes Into Form With Installation of Last Piece of Glass
(firmenpresse) - WINNIPEG, MANITOBA -- (Marketwire) -- 09/20/12 -- Editors Note: There are two photos associated with this press release.
Construction crews hoisted and set into place the final piece of glass on the Canadian Museum for Human Rights this morning, marking the end of the most significant phase of the building's construction and bringing architect Antoine Predock's celebrated design fully to life.
"The architectural sketches we've become so familiar with are no longer just a vision," said Stuart Murray, the museum's President and CEO. "With the last piece of glass in place, what was once an artist's drawing today emerges fully realized."
The piece of glass installed today on the museum's Tower of Hope is the last of 1,669 individual, custom-cut panes that give the museum its iconic look. Finishing the external glasswork brings construction of the museum's major exterior design components to completion.
"The generosity of 7,300 private donors, and all of Canadians through the contributions of each level of government, has brought us to this moment," said Gail Asper, O.C., O.M. LL.D., National Campaign Chair, Friends of the CMHR. "After years of planning, it is thrilling and rewarding for Canadians to see their new human rights museum in its full form."
With the glasswork finished, the construction crane that has become a fixture on the Winnipeg skyline in recent months will be lowered and removed from the building site. Crews will soon wrap up exterior non-structural design work such as stonework on the museum's roots and preparing the site for landscaping.
Museum officials noted today's milestone marks an important transition in the project's development. With the museum's exterior form fully realized, the focus shifts to now completing the museum's interior spaces, including setting the stage within the gallery spaces for exhibit construction through 2013 and 2014.
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Datum: 20.09.2012 - 19:12 Uhr
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