Architectural Design Competition

Architectural Design Embodies Cade Museum Mission

We are pleased to announce GWWO Architects as the winner of our architectural design competition! 

After the unveiling of the design, board member David Molyneaux said, "I think this project can change our community.  It can change the children of our community. It can change the adults in our community. It can change the entire outlook over science and technology and engineering and arts and mathematics." 

The new museum will be completed in phases. Building the Creative Connection is the Cade Museum's capital campaign to raise $9 million for the initial construction of a 21,000 square foot facility, scheduled to be completed by 2015. Phase II will be an addition of 24,000-SF making the total museum 45,000-SF. The Cade Museum will host exhibits, terraces for teaching and special events as well as classrooms-all of which will extend off the Main Hall, a collaborative space serving as the center of the building.  The museum will be located in Gainesville's Depot Park, a newly reclaimed park which is currently being developed to include walking and bike paths and a children's play area. Additionally, the new museum is adjacent to the newly renovated, historic Depot Building, which will house a restaurant and café area as well as community gathering space.  

GWWO's design of the new museum uniquely fulfills the mission of The Cade Museum-- a mission to create an educational, interactive, and collaborative destination that inspires creative thinking and purposeful invention for everyone who believes in the power of a great idea. "I am part of all that I have met; yet all experience is an arch where through gleams that untraveled  world whose margin fades forever when I move." - From Tennyson's Ulysses

GWWO's design for the Cade Museum was inspired by this passage and conceived as a metaphor for the human brain. Just as experience fosters creativity, and creativity leads to invention, neurons in the brain grow and make new connections, in new and different ways, with every new experience. Like some of history's greatest inventions that became platforms for future inventions, such as the world wide web making the creation of social networks and file sharing sites possible, the brain is where experiences are reformulated to create new ideas that in turn influence others-leading to invention. Similarly, the building is organized around one space-the Main Hall-where all experiences come together. Like Ulysses in Tennyson's poem, this space is a part of all of the spaces in the museum, yet at the same time becomes the foundation upon which they are experienced. A distinguishable form, the Main Hall draws visitors in from Main Street with views into and through the museum.

 

GWWO Architects is a Baltimore, Maryland-based full service architectural firm that specializes in the planning and design of cultural and educational facilities, with emphasis on quality design that is both evocative and inspirational.  Their projects include the new Port Canaveral Welcome Center in Canaveral, Florida; The Donald W. Reynolds Museum & Education Center and Ford Orientation & Visitor Center at George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens in Mount Vernon, Virginia and many others. 

 

Six Design Teams Selected to Compete to Design Museum

Congratulations on Advancing to the "Short List" for the Cade Museum Competition!

Here is the listing of the firms on the Short List:
1.  Browning, Day Mullins Dierdorf Architects from Indianapolis 
2.  designLAB architects from Boston
3.  GWWO from Baltimore
4.  Single Speed Design and MW Bender Architecture from New York, Boston, Seoul and Gainesville
5.  SVM +H2A from Gainesville
6.  Verner Johnson from Boston

Qualifications Review Team evaluates submissions

The Cade Museum Foundation Qualifications Review Team is evaluating the 25 submissions from design teams across the country.  The announcement of the "short list" of teams that will advance to the competition will be made on Monday, July 23, 2012.

Members of the Qualifications Review Team are:

Cedric Christian – Senior Designer and Florida Operations Manager for Flad Architects.  AIA, 23 years as a lead designer on a variety of projects in the healthcare, science and technology, and higher Education markets.  Holding three degrees from the University of Florida including a Masters in Architecture, his experience ranges from local to international. 

Dorrie Hipschman – Executive Director of the Cade Museum Foundation

Lucinda Lavelli – Dean of the College of Fine Arts, University of Florida.  She is an Ohio native but has worked in Louisiana, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida. She has a great appreciation for museums and always includes museum visits as a part of her professional and personal travel.  She is also a Cade Museum Foundation Board Member

Linda McGurn – Gainesville developer, immediate past chair of Gainesville Downtown Owners and Tenants and advocate for downtown Gainesville

Phoebe Cade Miles – Cade Museum Foundation Board Chair

Ed Regan –Ed Regan P.E. Strategic Utility Management LLC

Rebecca Rogers –LEED AP BD+C, Director of Facilities Planning and Construction at Santa Fe College, Gainesville, Florida.  She is a graduate of Clemson University’s College of Architecture with degrees in both Design and in Construction Science & Management.  She has spent most of her professional career as an owner’s representative and project manager in private business, local government, and public education. 

 

Questions now posted on Website

We have added a section for questions and answers on this site.  All questions will be dated (most current at the top of the list) and answered.  Please check the site regularly to ensure that you have the most current information. 

The Design Competition

The Cade Museum Foundation is seeking an Architectural Design Team to lead the design of a new building for a new kind of museum: a museum with a mission to inspire creative thinking, future inventors and early entrepreneurs. The museum, located in Gainesville, Florida, will combine hands-on, highly interactive exhibits with workshops and studios.

The Museum Foundation plans to build the Museum on a 2-acre site donated by the City of Gainesville, in the downtown Depot Park, a redeveloped brown field site. The Museum will be designed as a 40,000 square foot facility, but will be built in two phases: Phase I will be 21,000 square feet, with ground breaking in 2015. Phase II will be constructed after the successful opening and operation of Phase I.

Construction Budget

The Cade Museum Foundation estimates a $5.3 million budget for this project. This includes management, construction, architect’s fees, permitting and landscape/hardscaping for a 21,000 square foot building (First Phase) on a 2-acre site. Additional costs for construction on a remediated site are outside this budget and will be paid for (within a “not to exceed” budget) by the City of Gainesville.

Who Should Apply

The Cade Museum Foundation is seeking creative design teams that have the experience and enthusiasm for developing a new kind of museum on a challenging brown field site, with a conservative budget.

Time Line

The project, request for qualifications and all pertinent information will be posted on May 22, 2012 on this website. Additional information will be posted as the competition moves forward. The competition will be completed by the end of 2012.

Goal of Design Competition

Because the museum’s mission centers on creativity and innovation, The Cade Museum Foundation has developed a competition to encourage design teams to bring a fresh perspective and new ideas to the museum design. The Competition is structured to ensure that the museum achieves two objectives:

1. An exciting and inspiring design that can be built within the established budget.
2. A design/museum team that can work effectively and creatively together. In addition, a museum exhibits team will be added in late 2012.

Six Design Teams Selected to Compete to Design Museum

Congratulations on Advancing to the "Short List" for the Cade Museum Competition!

Here is the listing of the firms on the Short List who will compete on September 6, 2012:
1.  Browning, Day Mullins Dierdorf Architects from Indianapolis 
2.  designLAB architects from Boston
3.  GWWO from Baltimore
4.  Single Speed Design and MW Bender Architecture from New York, Boston, Seoul and Gainesville
5.  SVM +H2A from Gainesville
6.  Verner Johnson from Boston

Documents

All necessary documentation to enter the competition can be found below:

1. Request for Qualifications & Project Details
2. Depot Park Project Brief
3. Depot Park Master Plan
4. Cade Museum Site Plan