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Portland Press Herald: Letter: Bring on the PMA’s expansion

And, while there is something to be said for routine, I am personally looking forward to the expansion into the neighboring property at 142 Free St.

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Bangor Daily News: The Portland Museum of Art makes ‘Art for All’ a reality

Art gives us the chance to see the world through the eyes of someone else, providing a glimpse into their lives, history and experiences, which can be profoundly different than our own. 

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MaineBiz: Timber! Portland Museum of Art to host conference on an innovative forest product

"Timber and fine art may seem like an odd combination, but the Portland Museum of Art is promoting itself as the perfect host for a conference this fall on an innovative type of forest product."—MaineBiz

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Commentary: Mass timber makes sense for new building in Maine

The time is now to incentivize mass timber as a go-to building material to maximize long-lasting and positive outcomes for our economies and environment.

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Architectural Record: Projects from Around the World Demonstrate Diverse Approaches to Building with Wood

LEVER Architecture, noted for its pioneering embrace of mass-timber construction, is making its mark on the other Portland—the similarly forest-flanked one in Maine—with a $100 million revamp of that city’s most venerable public art institution.

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Hyperallergic: What Does an “Indigenous Inclusion Coordinator” Do?

From the beginning of the project, Newell was brought in to educate the team about Wabanaki culture, worldview, and cosmology to inform the design approach for the expansion.

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The Art Newspaper: The Portland Museum of Art picks mass timber design for $100m 'expansion and unification' project

The mass timber in the winning design nods to the region’s history of lumber production while gesturing to a future of “environmental stewardship”, positioning Portland’s cultural producers as leaders in sustainability awareness.

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ArchDaily: LEVER Architecture Wins Competition to Design the Portland Museum of Art Campus Expansion

The themes of accessibility, equity, diversity, inclusion, and sustainability were central to the design brief, as the competition aimed to push designers to imagine a new type of museum, one that makes art accessible to all.

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designboom: Portland Museum of Art selects LEVER architecture to lead its $100M campus expansion

The concept materializes as a timber extension with a curved roof that reaches for the sun and generous glazing that offers captivating reflections provides ample indoor illumination and encourages visual connectivity.

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arch2o: LEVER’s Mass Timber Design Wins the Portland Museum of Art Extension Contest

The Portland Museum of Art (PMA) in Maine’s largest city has selected LEVER Architecture as the winner of the prestigious worldwide competition to design the PMA’s expansion.

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207: Portland Museum of Art takes big stride toward ambitious future

PMA director Mark Bessire sat down with News Center Maine’s Rob Caldwell to discuss the winning design.

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Bustler: A mass timber design from LEVER wins the Portland Museum of Art expansion competition

LEVER Architecture has been named the winner in the much-heralded international competition to design an expansion of the Portland Museum of Art (PMA) in Maine’s largest city.

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The Construction Broadsheet: Maine museum selects design team for $100M expansion

The new wing, which will double the current size of the museum, could also include a rooftop restaurant, sculpture park and event space with views of Portland and Casco Bay.

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Architectural Record: LEVER Architecture Wins Design Competition for Campus Expansion of Maine’s Portland Museum of Art

LEVER Architecture, a Portland, Oregon­–founded architectural practice that’s garnered national praise for its pioneering embrace of mass-timber construction, is heading to the other Portland—the similarly forest-flanked one in Maine—for a $100 million revamp of that city’s most venerable public art institution.

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The Architect's Newspaper: Portland Museum of Art selects LEVER Architecture to design its campus expansion project

LEVER’s scheme doesn’t just expand the museum an additional 60,000 square feet offering more public and gallery space: It will also unify the campus, currently marked by four disparate structures built in different centuries in varying architectural styles.

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Boston Globe: Portland Museum of Art announces architects for $100 million expansion

Bessire praised LEVER for being “both visionary and very practical” and “tying its design into a building that really should be in Maine.”

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Portland Phoenix: LEVER Architecture’s mass timber design chosen for Portland museum expansion

LEVER (pronounced “lever, “not “leever”) is noted for mass timber design and the new PMA wing will be among the first commercial mass timber buildings in Maine.

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News Center Maine: One Portland to another: Architecture firm selected for museum expansiond

"The PMA already has a lot of programming that's community focused. They just don't have a building that supports [the] kind of programming that they do," the principal [Chandra Robinson] said. 

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Mainebiz: Portland Museum of Art picks West Coast architecture firm for $100M revamp

The sun will literally rise and set on the design submitted by the team that will lead the Portland Museum of Art's expansion project in what's being called “one of the most significant moments" in the museum's 140-year history.

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Portland Press Herald: West Coast firm chosen for design of Portland Museum of Art expansion

Lever Architecture, based in Portland, Oregon and Los Angeles, was chosen ahead of three other finalists to design a new building on the site of the former Children's Museum that will be integrated into the museum's existing campus overlooking Congress Square.

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