New Museum of Contemporary Art

New York, NY

The New Museum of Contemporary Art is the first major art museum to be built from the ground up in Lower Manhattan. The building consists of a series of rectangular boxes shifted slightly off axis with a skylight located at every shift. The braced-frame structural system with story-deep trusses provides a column-free interior and carries the gravity loads at the offsets. As structural engineer of record, we coordinated steel beam sizes and connection details with the architect. As building envelope design consultant, SGH worked with the architect and the contractor on a design-build approach to develop the cladding, windows, curtain walls, and skylight systems, and consulted with the museum director, the architect, and the mechanical engineer to specify building envelope systems to satisfy the high-humidity requirements of the museum gallery spaces.

Service Provided:
Design

Supporting Capabilities:
Building Envelope Engineering
Structural Engineering