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Rendering of new welcome pavilions at Storm King Art Center. Image © Storm King Art Center

This is the first in a series of three tours, Architects on Site, lead by architecture firms that designed the capital project. For other tour dates, please see below.

Join Róisín Heneghan, architect and co-founder of Heneghan Peng, for a special guided tour of the new buildings and landscapes developed through Storm King’s capital project, the first in the museum’s 65-year history.

Explore these transformative new spaces and see Storm King through fresh eyes. Visit the newly designed welcome pavilions, outdoor lobby, and reclaimed landscapes for art and programming. Gain insight into how the project thoughtfully integrates nature, art, and people, and learn about the vision and creative process that brought these spaces to life. 

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• Program location: meet at Outdoor Lobby
• Program is rain or shine

Other tours in this series: 

Sat, August 23 @ 1:30pm: WXY Architecture + Urban Design
Sat, September 13 @ 1:30pm: Reed Hilderbrand

Bio

Róisín Heneghan is an architect and co-founder of heneghan peng architects, a practice integrating landscape, urban planning, and architecture, with offices in Dublin and Berlin. She earned a Bachelor of Architecture from University College Dublin and an M.Arch from Harvard GSD. With Shih-Fu Peng, she founded a competition practice in New York, winning the Architectural League Prize in 1999. After winning a competition in Ireland in 2001, she moved to Dublin. They have won major competitions, including the Grand Egyptian Museum, and received the Aga Khan Award, RIBA Stirling Prize, and Mies van der Rohe Award nominations. Storm King Art Center is their first U.S. project.

ACCESSIBILITY
Terrain and Getting Around
The tour will take place across varied terrain including hills, wooded areas, paved paths, gravel paths, and mown lawn. Expect to cover 1 to 1.5 miles on the tour.

Assistive Listening Devices
The tour leader and attendees will be connected through assistive listening devices.

Accessible Cart Service
An accessible golf cart may be requested to assist with moving between locations during the tour. Service is available on a first come, first served basis. Please make a request in advance by emailing info@stormkingartcenter.org.  The cart can accommodate up to five visitors sitting in seats; or one wheelchair-using visitor with up to three additional passengers in seats. The weight capacity for the ramp is 650lbs.

Restrooms
Accessible restroom stalls are located at the Restroom Pavilion, near the entrance.

ASL interpretation for guided tours is available upon request two weeks in advance. Every effort will be made to honor requests made with less notice.

If you have questions or need other accommodations, please email info@stormkingartcenter.org