Bids sought for $3.5m renovation.The Smithsonian Institution will seek bids for the $3.5 million renovation of Pavilion space at the George Gustav Heye George Gustav Heye (1874 – January 21, 1957) was a collector of Native American artifacts. His collection became the core of the National Museum of the American Indian. Center of the National Museum of the American Indian National Museum of the American Indian, institution devoted to the collection, preservation, and presentation of the culture of the indigenous populations of the Western Hemisphere, a division of the Smithsonian Institution. . In order for the project to go out to bid, all funding for the project had to be secured, which took the Museum and Smithsonian several months since the completion of the construction documents by Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects. Public bids will open the week of January 20, 2004. A pre-solicitation for the job is posted on the Federal Business Opportunities web site. The scope of work includes the renovation of the truncated egg-shaped space directly below the historic rotunda rotunda In Classical and Neoclassical architecture, a building or room that is circular in plan and covered with a dome. The Pantheon is a Classical Roman rotunda. The Villa Rotonda at Vicenza, designed by Andrea Palladio, is an Italian Renaissance example. at the former Alexander Hamilton United States Customs House at Bowling Green, Lower Manhattan. This former storage space will be transformed into a state of the art multi-purpose educational, exhibition and meeting space. The design of the space will feature a new glass curtain wall at the truncated end of the space that will visually complete the egg shape of the room by allowing the user to view an exterior the vaulted space beyond, to be used for the display of large sculpture and artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. . The room itself will boast a glowing luminous ceiling, battered walls and display cabinets of solid cherry, and an intricate inlaid in·laid v. Past tense and past participle of inlay. adj. 1. Set into a surface in a decorative pattern: a mahogany dresser with an inlaid teak design. 2. wood floor based on traditional Indian designs. |
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