Norton Museum of Art West Palm Beach, Miami Building Renewal, American Architecture Images
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach
New Architecture Project in Florida, USA – design by Foster + Partners
Feb 8 & 7, 2019
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach
Design: Foster + Partners, Architects, UK
Location: West Palm Beach, Miami, Florida, USA
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach in Miami
The inaugural gala for the Norton Museum of Art was held in West Palm Beach, Florida, celebrating its transformation by Foster + Partners. The renovation and expansion of the museum has added new galleries and much needed facilities for its visitors, while reinstating the axial arrangement and clarity of circulation of the original 1940?s building.
Above all, the museum is no longer surrounded by car parking, but is the focus of an extensive, new sub-tropical garden displaying a magnificent collection of contemporary sculpture. The opening gala was attended by, amongst others, Executive Director Hope Alswang, friends of the museum Ken Griffin and Leonard Lauder, Norton trustees Ronnie Heyman and Gil Maurer, and Lord Foster.

The Norton was built in 1941 as an elegant series of Art Deco-inspired single-story pavilions around a central courtyard. Subsequent expansion broke the symmetry of the original arrangement, and the axial configuration was undermined by the relocation of the main entrance to the side of the building. The new masterplan restores the logic of the original plan...