The Everson Museum of Art is currently celebrating the 50th anniversary of its iconic, I.M. Pei-designed building. As part of a comprehensive effort to revitalize Pei’s masterpiece, the Everson has partnered with the School of Architecture to host an international competition to design a museum café. The café will also serve as a venue to showcase and put into use The Rosenfield Collection, a newly acquired 3,000-plus piece functional ceramic art collection assembled by Dallas-based couple Louise and David Rosenfield.
After an internal review of invited submissions from architecture offices in Canada, China, Greece, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the United States, four finalists have been selected: FreelandBuck (Los Angeles/ New York), MILLIØNS (Los Angeles), NATURALBUILD (Shanghai) and Norman Kelley (Chicago/New Orleans). Each finalist will travel to Syracuse in September to participate in a public symposium and present a developed proposal to a jury of professionals in architecture, ceramics and the culinary arts. The jury will select one firm to receive a commission to complete the new café.
