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The grand opening of St. Petersburg's new Salvador Dali Museum is six months away, yet the unfinished structure is already garnering accolades for its unique design.
The Tampa office of Hellmuth Obata & Kassabaum Inc. is scheduled to receive the Novum Structures Design Excellence Award at a private ceremony Aug. 11. Yann Weymouth, design director, and Will Hollingsworth, senior project manager, will accept the award.
The design of the new Dali Museum, at Fifth Avenue and Bay Shore Drive, was created by Weymouth with Milwaukee-based Novum Structures engineering, making and installing the glass free-form structures that will become the building's trademark. The museum will have more than 900 triangular glass panels making up the “Igloo” and “Enigma,” which are at least 75 feet tall and drape the building like one of those recognizable molten clocks from Dali's 1931 masterpiece “The Persistence of Memory.”
The new Dali Museum will double in size to 66,450 square feet, allowing more space for visitors and local events as well as its current 2,140-piece collection, including 96 oil paintings. Even with all its glass, the building is designed to withstand a Category 5 hurricane.
“By remaining focused on our design objective, we have been able to create a true work of art that not only protects the world's most significant collection of Salvador Dali's art, but also complements the exciting cultural and artistic revival of the St. Petersburg community with its iconic presence,” says Weymouth, who also designed recent additions to the St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts and the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota.
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