Architect Francis Kr's design for the Las Vegas Museum of Art takes shape

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The Las Vegas Museum of Art has revealed new key details of Pritzker Prize-winning architect Diébédo Francis Kéré’s design for the city’s first freestanding museum, which is expected to break ground in 2027.The earthy red structure will feature a facade of locally sourced stone, and was inspired by the canyons and red rock landscape that stretches beyond the brash, man-made playground of Sin City, Kéré said in an interview alongside the museum’s executive director, Heather Harmon.Entertainment & Arts Early this year the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced a partnership with the planned Las Vegas Museum of Art.

LACMA’s Michael Govan and LVMA director Heather Harmon discuss the details of the arrangement.“How can I use what is surrounding Las Vegas to create something open and welcoming?” he said.“We started to think about the subtle beauty of the nature, and to bring it into the core of the museum.”Renderings of the structure, which is situated in Symphony Park, show a cubed modernist building with a large awning that stretches over a bustling entry plaza to provide shade.

A curved grand entrance staircase spirals through the center of the museum and is visible from the building’s floor-to-ceiling windows.Cloistered second-floor galleries are meant to provide a peaceful sanctuary for taking in the art.Architect Paul R.

Williams’ Guardian Angel Cathedral, which opened in the city in 1963, is cited as a design influence, as are the singular stocky trunk baobab trees of the African savanna.Kéré was born in the village of Gando in the West African country of Burkina Faso, and noted that although the natural environment of his home country is quite different from that of Las Vegas, he was able to find many design parallels for inspiration.Kéré, who is also a professor at Yale in New Haven, Conn., has made many trips to Las Vegas over the la...