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National Infantry Museum Featured in Boston Globe
Georgia Museum Honors the Battleground Warriors
The Boston Globe - Paul E. Kandarian- 18 July 2010
COLUMBUS, Ga, - There are telling moments to be found in the new National Infantry Museum just outside Fort Benning. One is inside a re-created Vietnam jungle exhibit, a dark and moist place of near stifling humidity. Helicopter sounds throb overhead, and veterans’ voice-overs on small video screens provide commentary on the horrors of battle.
Watching on a day I visited were fresh-faced young infantrymen, somberly taking in the images of war far from the grounds upon which they hone their battle skills at Fort Benning, site of the US Army Infantry School...
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Cade Museum Receives City Funding
Gainesville, FL 15 July 2010
www.cademuseum.org
The Gainesville Sun reported that two more projects will now get a piece of the money generated by the 2-cent increase in the county's tourism development tax. On Tuesday, July 13th, county commissioners decided the county's future fairgrounds and the planned Cade Museum for Innovation and Invention would receive some bed tax funding for construction...
According to the Museum's website, Verner Johnson museum architects and planners developed the initial vision for the Cade Museum for Innovation and Invention. The firm has conceived a building that seems to flow naturally into the landscape and master plan for the reclamation and renovation of Depot Park. In addition to state of the art galleries, the three story, 55,000 square foot facility will include a theater, science labs for use by schools and others, a restaurant and a dedicated space for hosting top traveling exhibits. The building is also designed to serve as a venue for meetings and community events...
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Flint Hills Discovery Center Breaks Ground
Construction begins on Manhattan's Discovery Center
KTKA.com- Lindsey Elliott - 7 July 2010
Wednesday, Manhattan city officials broke ground on a project they have been working on for seven years.
Lieutenant Governor Troy Findley, as well as officials from counties across the Flint Hills, came together to kick off the construction of the Flint Hills Discovery Center...
Local poet Ron Wilson wrote a poem describing the new center called Discover. This is an excerpt he recited.
"So when that traveler stops, he will discover much, much more," Wilson says. "The culture and the people that this region has in store. And it’s not just for the traveler who might be passing through, it will be a focal point for our local people too. Now we celebrate this groundbreaking and the need that it fulfills. For this new center to help more people discover the Flint Hills."
The center is designed to draw in tourism and is expected to open in Spring of 2012...
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New Discovery Park of America Design Unveiled at Public Event
Discovery Park building momentum; training plane arrives
The Messenger - Glenda Caudle - June 22, 2010
Sizzling summer temperatures couldn't diminish the enthusiasm of those who turned out for the special Discovery Park of America event staged this morning at Everett-Stewart Regional Airport between Union City and Martin.
The site was chosen because one of the most exciting of Discovery Center’s exhibits — a Stearman plane identical to those used to train World War II cadets at the former Embry-Riddle Field — was flown into the site by local pilot Mike Rinker. The former flight school location was carved out of Obion County farm acreage in 1942 and was later turned over to the county, once the need for trained pilots to help wage the battle in the skies over Europe, Africa and Asia was no longer urgent. Obion County — and more recently, Weakley County — benefited from the gift because the former training ground has grown into an impressive regional air field with a runway extension groundbreaking recently celebrated.
The plane, which was located and purchased by the volunteer-staffed Military History committee, will be showcased at Discovery Center when the Discovery Park of America 50-acre educational-entertainment-tourism complex opens in 2012 in Union City’s northwest quadrant...
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Louis Sirianni and Brad Nederhoff of VJI present the new Discovery Center design
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Spaces Magazine features Verner Johnson, Inc. in Feature Article
Monuments for the Masses
Spaces - Bansri Pandey - May/June 2010
Museums were now not only the places to preserve the valuable collections and artefacts, but they were places for ideas and issues, learning and enlightening, discovering and inspiring. It was a time when museum architecture got an opportunity to explore new limits. Since then, this limit has continuously seen higher and higher boundaries.
Ar. Verner Johnson, grabbing this momentum 30 years ago, established Verner Johnson Inc. in Boston which specializes exclusively in museum design and planning. With a record of designing more than 200 museum projects, Verner Johnson Inc. has carried out more museum designs than any other architectural firm. Having carried out the complete reorganization plan for the Louvre museum in Paris as well as the projects in Europe, Hong Kong, China, Dubai, South America and in many other countries, the firm’s expertise is recognized all around the world.
There are many types of museums, from very large collections in major cities covering categories like fine arts, history, archaeology, military, etc., to small museums in specific locations exhibiting a particular subject like an individual notable person or an event. Exploring their design processes, the following is a sample of three different types of innovative museums designed by Verner Johnson Inc.
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Wall Street Journal features the National Infantry Museum in Veterans Day article
The Army's Grunts Get Their Due
Wall Street Journal - Mark Yost - 10 November 2009
World War II cartoonist Bill Mauldin once said, "I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the Army which gives more and gets less than anybody else." The infantryman has finally been given the recognition he deserves with the opening of the National Infantry Museum, situated just outside the gates of Fort Benning, "Home of the Infantry."
Visitors first encounter "The Last 100 Yards," a series of dioramas on the infantry's role in ...
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Wall Street Journal Photo 10 November 2009
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Historic Preservation Award
Dinosaurs In Their Time
Pittsburgh, PA 1 May 2009
Verner Johnson, Inc. received a Historic Preservation Award for the Dinosaurs In Their Time project at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. The award was presented by the City of Pittsburgh and the Historic Review Commission for the project’s outstanding efforts toward sympathetic building addition, and historic restoration and rehabilitation.
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Community Design Award
Tampa Bay History Center
Tampa, FL 16 April 2009
Verner Johnson, Inc., along with Construction Manager Walbridge and the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners received a Community Design Award of Excellence from the Florida Hillsborough County Planning Commission for the Tampa Bay History Center. The 27th Annual Community Design Awards was held at the Tampa Convention Center in Downtown Tampa, and recognized the project for its contribution to the quality of life in the county.
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Building Excellence Award
Dinosaurs In Their Time
Pittsburgh, PA 26 February 2009
Verner Johnson, Inc. and Construction Manager Jendoco Construction Corporation received the award for Best Renovation Construction Over $10 Million for the Dinosaurs In Their Time project at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. This 2008 Building Excellence Award was presented by the Master Builders’ Association and is the most prestigious honor and finest testimonial to quality recognized in Western Pennsylvania’s construction industry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwtEmvJx7bM
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Tampa Bay History Center
Celebrates Its Opening
Tampa, FL January 17, 2009 Amidst ribbon-cutting and opening-day ceremonies, the new Tampa Bay History Center (THBC), designed by E. Verner Johnson and Associates, drew praise from the museum community. Marking the occasion, THBC Director C. J. Roberts said, “We expected from the architect a good, well-functioning building, which is what we have. What we didn’t expect was an artistic statement.” The 60,000 sq. ft. building, the first to pursue LEED rating in Hillsborough County, features an atrium, exhibition areas, theaters, a map gallery, a research center, an event hall, a museum store and cafe. The interactive exhibits, designed by Cristopher Chadbourne and Associates, showcase 12,000 years of bay area history including the Spanish conquistadors, Seminole Indians, cattle ranchers, and cigar makers. American History Professor Keith Berry sees the new center as a ‘jewel’ for Tampa . . . “that helps us understand our present and where we should head in our future” (The Tampa Tribune, January 18, 2009).
For recent project press releases: http://www.tampabayhistorycenter.org/presscoverage.html
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