Concept Model of Interior for National Air & Space Museum
ID: SIA2017-018118
Creator: Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1972
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 07-010, Box 3, Folder: 6
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The original design for the National Air and Space Museum by Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum (HOK) was revised and this final design is of the interior, from the Independence Avenue entrance, showing a plane, multi-levels, display areas and visitors.
Subject
- National Air and Space Museum
- National Air Museum (U.S.)
Category
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes
- In 1958, President Eisenhower authorized the preparation of plans for the construction of a building for a National Air Museum, to be located on a site bounded by Fourth and Seventh Streets SW, Independence Avenue, and Jefferson Drive. The 1964 design by Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum (HOK) for "a Museum for the Space Age" was selected. However, their initial design was later modified. In July 1966, President Lyndon Johnson signed into law a bill authorizing construction of a new building for the newly-renamed National Air and Space Museum (NASM). Congressional passage of appropriations for the construction of the new museum occurred in 1971. The final design was approved in 1972 and construction began in November of 1972. The museum opened July 1, 1976.
- HOK were the architects selected. However, their original design was revised and this became the final design.
- For the 1972 final design by Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum (HOK), see Neg. SIA2017-018111 through 018119, SIA2017-018122 through SIA2017-018134, and 94-2479. For other designs for a proposed new National Air Museum see: United States, Public Building Administration 1949; McKim, Mead & White 1955; Harbeson, Hough, Livingston & Larson 1962; and HOK's preliminary design of 1964.
Contained within
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 07-010, Box 3, Folder: 6
Contact information
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Date
1972
Restrictions & Rights
No restrictions
Topic
- Design
- Interior architecture
- Architecture
- Architects
- Models (representations)
- Aeronautics
- New Museums
- Exhibitions
- Museums
- Models
- Architecture--Design and plans
- Aeronautical museums
- Architectural firms
- Architectural design
Place
Washington (D.C.)
Form/Genre
- Photographic print
- Interior
- Model
ID Number
SIA2017-018118
Physical description
Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Interior, Model; Medium: Photographic Print