It’s an Honor
November 20, 2024
The Shirley Tyree Theater was bestowed an Architectural Honor Award by AIA Nebraska this year. Bravo to The Union for Contemporary Art and the entire project team!
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UNL International Quilt Museum
Education + Art on Display
Home to the world’s largest publicly held quilt collection, The International Quilt Museum was designed for the display, preservation, restoration, and study of quilts and other textiles. With three exhibition galleries and state-of-the-art textiles storage, the building fills the need for a dedicated, climate-controlled facility where students, researchers, and visitors can learn about and interact with the collection. Careful coordination of the mechanical and electrical systems would ensure that the collection of more than 3,500 quilts and quilt-related objects were displayed and stored appropriately and safely.
Project Details
Location
Lincoln, NE
Size
36,000 SF New Building
13,200 SF Addition
Scope of Work
New Construction + Addition
Date Of Completion
2008 New Building
2014 Addition
Honors + Awards
LEED Silver Certified
Faced with limestone lined in a quilt-like pattern, the building features a bowed façade of glass panels “stitched together” to create a large scale pattern creating a memorable building that celebrates this unique art form from the outside in.
Within the galleries themselves, lighting levels were intentionally reduced to minimize potential damage to the quilts caused by higher levels of UV light waves.
Photography by Tom Kessler Photography and Tuan Le
