AECOM Tishman served as CM for the new 230,000 SF Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation, a transformative expansion that creates a dramatic new entryway to the American Museum of Natural History in Theodore Roosevelt Park, while providing numerous connections that link the entire multi-building campus.
Designed by Studio Gang, the dynamic new center encompasses education and exhibition spaces including an insectarium, living butterfly exhibit, a “Collections Core” with thousands of specimens and artifacts displayed across three levels, as well as laboratories, a restaurant, and visible storage. The remarkable, undulating structure was achieved using “shotcrete” – spraying concrete directly onto rebar bent into curving shapes without relying on traditional formwork – to produce the center’s distinctive look and continuous, seamless walls.