Best Cultural Project: Complex Museum Captures the Beauty of Arkansas
Buro Happold Consulting Engineers led structural and MEP work on the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, a 200,000-sq-ft museum and cultural center. The facility features complex geometric forms, inspired by the local Arkansas landscape as well as the suspension bridges of Bhutan, some of which date back centuries.
"The design and installation of the cable roofs was particularly challenging," says Cristobal Correa, associate principal atBuro Happold. "The roofs have a complex geometry and it was critical that their installation and erection was fully understood and coordinated with the contractor. It was a major teaming effort that required a high level of communication."