Navy Seeks Architects for New Museum in DC’s Navy Yard

The U.S. Navy is on a quest to construct a brand new U.S. Navy Museum campus in Washington, D.C., and it’s enlisting architects to take part within the design. 

Presently, the Naval Historical past & Heritage Command (NHHC) is engaged within the feasibility evaluation section of the event, which can possible be on or close to the grounds of the Washington Navy Yard. Its present museum has been on the previous Naval Gun Manufacturing unit at 736 Sicard Avenue since 1963. It’s unclear what’s going to occur to the present museum when the brand new one is accomplished. 

The present imaginative and prescient for the campus features a new constructing and ceremonial courtyard, in addition to the potential renovation of present historic buildings. The campus would comprise almost 270,000 sq. ft, together with 100,000 sq. ft of web gallery house.

As a result of complexity and breadth of the mission, the NHHC has put out a Request for {Qualifications} (RFQ), open to structure companies, to start the design course of.  

Final month, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro introduced the Navy’s most popular location for the museum could be on land adjoining to the Washington Navy Yard that might be acquired both by a land alternate or direct buy. 

“The reveals of this new museum will create a dwelling memorial to the U.S. Navy’s heritage of victory and valor, bringing to life the human experiences of serving at sea,” Del Toro stated at a press convention. “It is going to give all of the guests of the long run museum — no matter their earlier army expertise — a larger appreciation and understanding of the financial and diplomatic significance of what a robust and sturdy Navy means to our nationwide and financial safety.” 

For safety causes, the Navy is trying to purchase roughly 6 acres of land instantly outdoors the Tingey Gate on the Washington Navy Yard, in keeping with somebody near the mission.  

The brand new Nationwide Museum of the USA Navy (NMUSN) campus is anticipated to supply an academic, cultural and ceremonial middle for all guests, together with active-duty sailors, veterans and the general public. 

“Navy management has had a long-held imaginative and prescient to construct a state-of-the-art museum that can create a dwelling memorial to the U.S. Navy’s heritage of victory, valor and sacrifice,” a spokesperson for the mission advised Business Observer. “The purpose of the brand new NMUSN campus is to supply guests a larger understanding of the position the U.S. Navy has performed in making certain America’s nationwide and financial safety all through its historical past and demonstrates the Navy’s important significance in in the present day’s international surroundings.”

The RFQ will prescreen certified respondents and choose 5 finalists to help in creating creative concepts for the brand new museum campus. 

Chosen finalists will present conceptual and creative concepts for the museum campus, which can comprise a number of buildings, the primary entrance, a central museum atrium, reveals, a theater, meals providers, retail areas, out of doors areas and macro artifacts, in addition to meet historic preservation and safety necessities. 

The finalists will obtain a stipend of $48,000 every to develop a submission.

Keith Loria might be reached at Kloria@commercialobserver.com