The Liberty Memorial Restoration and Museum

Kansas City, Missouri

ASAI Architecture

The 1926 Liberty Memorial designed by H. Van Buren Magonigle housed the largest collection of World War I artifacts in the United States. When it closed in 1994 due to structural and material deterioration, 85 percent of its archive was stored off-site for lack of exhibition space. With a renovation, adaptive reconstruction, and a new building project, ASAI Architecture returned the derelict National Historic Landmark to its original glory. A cultural-history exhibition, an auditorium, education center, research archive, and public support spaces complement a 160,000-square-foot addition.

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