https://www.architecturalrecord.com/rss/1339-ennead en-us http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/18166 Mon, 11 May 2026 00:31:12 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/18166-enneads-terrace-wrapped-tower-in-shenzhen-helps-its-occupants-connect-and-collaborate http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/17675 Wed, 30 Jul 2025 09:08:23 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/17675-ennead-debuts-newest-diplomatic-project-the-us-consulate-general-in-nogales-mexico A new carbon-neutral museum invites visitors to dig for fossils beneath a strategically sited mass-timber-and-concrete structure.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/17461 Mon, 31 Mar 2025 02:24:34 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/17461-at-edelman-fossil-park-and-museum-ennead-and-kss-reframe-new-jerseys-paleontological-legacy goncharj@bnpmedia.com (Joann Gonchar, FAIA) The 24-unit complex is the first project completed by Juno, a Texas startup promoting a novel approach to construction informed by the manufacturing principles of consumer electronics.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16906 Mon, 20 May 2024 09:13:17 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16906-enneads-mass-timber-apartment-building-in-austin-pioneers-productized-housing Formerly known as the Grey Art Gallery, the institution’s new space, designed by Ennead Architects, is 40 percent larger than its predecessor.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16773 Thu, 07 Mar 2024 01:08:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16773-nyus-grey-art-museum-debuts-new-home-on-cooper-square City Harvest celebrates its 40th anniversary with a new headquarters in Brooklyn that includes an event space and demonstration kitchen.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16059 Fri, 27 Jan 2023 13:27:34 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16059-ennead-revamps-historic-train-repair-shop-for-nonprofit-feeding-new-yorkers-in-need City-Harvest-Lead.jpg In the 10,000-square-foot repack room, thousands of volunteers will sort and repackage food for distribution throughout the city. Photo © Albert Vecerka/Esto, courtesy Ennead Architects City-Harvests-1.jpg Located in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, City Harvest's new Food Rescue Center is housed in a cavernous warehouse that served as a train repair shop from 1890 to 1916. Photo © Albert Vecerka/Esto, courtesy Ennead Architects   City-Harvests-4.webp From the staff entrance on 52nd Street, a large steel staircase leads to the second floor. Photo © Albert Vecerka/Esto, courtesy Ennead Architects      City-Harvests-3.webp In the common area on the second floor, warehouse workers, administrative staff, and volunteers mingle in a generously-sized kitchen and lounge area. Photo © Albert Vecerka/Esto, courtesy Ennead Architects      City-Harvests-6.webp On the ground level, storage and loading space are almost double in capacity compared to the nonprofit's previous warehouse location in Queens. Photo © Albert Vecerka/Esto, courtesy Ennead Architects      City-Harvests-5.webp The demonstration kitchen and event space, designed by Rockwell Group, honors both the organization's mission and the neighborhood's industrial heritage with recycled materials and copper accents. Photo © Jason Varney for Rockwell Group City-Harvests-2.webp The entry features a custom millwork reception desk and open oak casework for display purposes. Photo © Jason Varney for Rockwell Group RECORD Innovation speaker) join the podcast to discuss their unique approach to design and construction, the future of cities, and the role of mass timber in creating affordable housing.]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15901 Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15901-design-ed-podcast-bj-siegel-and-tomas-rossant http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15840 Mon, 12 Sep 2022 12:57:44 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15840-tribute-james-stewart-polshek-1930-2022 Polshek-Obit-1.jpg Clinton Presidential Library (2004) in Little Rock, Arkansas. Photo © Timothy Hursley, courtesy Ennead Architects Polshek-Obit-8*_result.webp Zankel Hall (2003), an underground adjunct to Carnegie Hall (designed with Olcott). Photo © Jeff Goldberg/Esto Polshek-Obit-7*_result.webp The Santa Fe Opera (1998) Photo © Robert Reck goncharj@bnpmedia.com (Joann Gonchar, FAIA) Designed in collaboration with Ennead Architects, Juno’s first apartment building heads toward completion in Austin.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15778 Fri, 29 Jul 2022 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15778-new-startup-aims-to-upend-housing-design-and-construction Juno-Ennead-1.jpg The Juno project in Austin will contain 24 market-rate units. Image courtesy Juno/Ennead Juno-Ennead-2_result.webp The apartments feature blond wood floors and ceilings, sleek kitchens, and generous windows. Image courtesy Juno/Ennead Juno-Ennead-8_result.webp The erection of each mass-timber framed level, including installation of its bathroom pods and demising walls, took about a week on average. Image courtesy Juno/Ennead Juno-Ennead-3_result.webp Image courtesy Juno/Ennead Juno-Ennead-4_result.webp Image courtesy Juno/Ennead Juno-Ennead-5_result.webp Image courtesy Juno/Ennead Juno-Ennead-6_result.webp Image courtesy Juno/Ennead Juno-Ennead-7_result.webp Image courtesy Juno/Ennead An expanding urban hospital complex gains clarity, green space, and views under a carefully reworked master plan.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13522 Wed, 11 Jul 2018 09:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13522-nyu-langone-health-by-ennead-and-nbbj 1807-Ennead-NBBJ-New-York-NYU-Langone-Health-01.jpg NYU Langone Health, as seen from Brooklyn, across the East River (from left to right): the Science Building (2018), Smilow Research Center (2006), Skirball (1989), Energy Building (low in foreground; 2016), Tisch Hospital (1963), and Kimmel Pavilion (2018). Photo © Jeff Goldberg/Esto 1807-Ennead-NBBJ-New-York-NYU-Langone-Health-02.jpg The energy building, next to the Kimmel Pavilion, is slightly curved along the highway and the East River.  Photo © Jeff Goldberg/Esto The new 21-story tower offers individual patient rooms with sweeping views. Photo © Jeff Goldberg/Esto 1807-Ennead-NBBJ-New-York-NYU-Langone-Health-04.jpg The lobby of the Kimmel Pavilion is dramatized by a sculpture created by Alyson Shotz. Photo © Jeff Goldberg/Esto 1807-Ennead-NBBJ-New-York-NYU-Langone-Health-05.jpg Hassenfeld Children's Hospital, part of the Kimmel Pavilion, has its entrance signaled by Spot, a sculpture by Donald Lipski showing a giant Dalmatian balancing a yellow cab. Photo © Aislinn Weidele/Ennead Architects 1807-Ennead-NBBJ-New-York-NYU-Langone-Health-06.jpg On the southern edge of the campus is the new 16-story Science Building devoted to education and research. Photo © Rene Perez 1807-Ennead-NBBJ-New-York-NYU-Langone-Health-07.jpg A brise-soleil and fritted glass louvers animate the south-facing facade. Photo © Aislinn Weidele/Ennead Architects 1807-Ennead-NBBJ-New-York-NYU-Langone-Health-08.jpg The labs receive light filtered through the brise-soleil and fritted-glass louvers. Photo © Aislinn Weidele/Ennead Architects 1807-Ennead-NBBJ-New-York-NYU-Langone-Health-09.jpg The lobby, punctuated by Mariko Mori’s mobile, opens onto Alumni Courtyard. Photo © Elliot Goldstein 1807-Ennead-NBBJ-New-York-NYU-Langone-Health-10.jpg Joanna Pertz Landscape Architecture designed the Alumni Courtyard, placed to the north of the Science Building. Photo © Derek McClung/Turner Construction 1807-Ennead-NBBJ-New-York-NYU-Langone-Health-11.jpg The Fleck Courtyard, designed by Joanna Pertz Landscape Architecture, is separated from the main Tisch Courtyard by a glazed passageway.  Photo © Rene Perez 1807-Ennead-NBBJ-New-York-NYU-Langone-Health-12.jpg Tisch Courtyard, also designed by Joanna Pertz Landscape Architecture, extends in front of Ennead’s new elevator tower, next to the Skirball Institute of Bionuclear Medicine. Photo © Jeff Goldberg/Esto 1807-Ennead-NBBJ-New-York-NYU-Langone-Health-13.jpg The Energy Building, a dense 6-story structure, raises mechanicals above the floodplain.  Image courtesy Ennead Architects & NBBJ Image courtesy Ennead Architects & NBBJ Image courtesy Ennead Architects & NBBJ Image courtesy Ennead Architects & NBBJ Image courtesy Ennead Architects & NBBJ Firms with high head counts and deep pools of talent are ripe for creative reinvention, but vulnerable as well.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13468 Fri, 01 Jun 2018 08:50:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13468-the-future-of-practice-large-firms 1806-The-Future-of-Practice-Large-Firms-Offices-at-Every-Scale-01.jpg Marmol Radziner’s office in a former movie-production studio in West Los Angeles Photo courtesy Marmol Radziner 1806-The-Future-of-Practice-Large-Firms-Offices-at-Every-Scale-02.jpg The KPF team on-site at the firm’s 10 Hudson Yards tower in New York Photo courtesy KPF 1806-The-Future-of-Practice-Large-Firms-Offices-at-Every-Scale-03.jpg KPF’s New York office, with a model of a tower in Seoul in the foreground Photo courtesy KPF Mithun’s rowing team on Seattle’s Lake Union Photo courtesy Mithun 1806-The-Future-of-Practice-Large-Firms-Offices-at-Every-Scale-05.jpg Ennead’s Richard Olcott (right) and colleagues discussing the design of a concert hall. Photo © Andy Ryan 1806-The-Future-of-Practice-Large-Firms-Offices-at-Every-Scale-06.jpg Marmol Radziner’s fabrication shop in El Segundo, California Photo courtesy Marmol Radziner The Ennead Architects partner emeritus reflects on winning the 2018 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13165 Thu, 21 Dec 2017 06:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13165-interview-with-james-stewart-polshek-faia The AIA’s 2018 Firm Award goes to Minneapolis-based Snow Kreilich.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13153 Thu, 07 Dec 2017 12:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13153-ennead-founder-james-polshek-wins-2018-aia-gold-medal James Polshek Photo  © Aislinn Weidele American Museum of Natural History, Rose Center for Earth and Space Photo © Jeff Goldberg/Esto Newseum/Freedom Forum Foundation World Headquarters Photo © Jeff Goldberg/Esto William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park Photo © Timothy Hursley Snow Kreilich Architects Photo courtesy Snow Kreilich Architects goncharj@bnpmedia.com (Joann Gonchar, FAIA) Renovations of the Hall of Science in Queens, New York; the Richards Medical Research Laboratories at the University of Pennsylvania; the Greeley Memorial Laboratory at Yale; and the Manton Research Center at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12201 Wed, 01 Feb 2017 08:01:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12201-four-midcentury-landmarks-get-a-new-lease-on-life Harrison and Abramovitz’s Hall of Science in Queens, New York, was originally built for the 1964 World’s Fair. Photo © Ezra Stoller/ESTO Recently renovated by Ennead, the hall’s defining features are curvilinear eggcratelike walls infilled with panels made of concrete and shards of blue glass. The result is an interior that evokes outer space. Photo © Jeff Goldberg/ESTO The hall currently hosts an exhibition that focuses on the earth’s diverse natural habitats. Photo © Aislinn Weidele/Ennead Architects Louis Kahn’s Richards Medical Research Laboratories, built on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in 1961, consists of four interconnected towers in concrete, brick, and glass. Photo courtesy University of Pennsylvania Architectural Archives A phased renovation of Richards by EYP and Atkin Olshin Schade includes a complete revamp of all mechanical systems and replacement of Kahn’s extra-large, single-glazed windows with laminated glass within the original steel frames. Photo © Halkin Mason A phased renovation of Richards by EYP and Atkin Olshin Schade includes a complete revamp of all mechanical systems and replacement of Kahn’s extra-large, single-glazed windows with laminated glass within the original steel frames. Photo © Halkin Mason Richards Site Plan Image courtesy EYP Richards Typical Floor Plan Image courtesy EYP Distinctive Y-shaped columns support the roof of Paul Rudolph’s 1959 Greeley Memorial Laboratory at Yale University. Image courtesy the Paul Rudolph Foundation A recent renovation of Greeley by New Haven architect Christopher Williams included the creation of a space where scientists can relax and informally meet. The area is defined by cherry cabinets that stop short of the sculptural ceiling in order not to interfere with the building’s free-flowing configuration. Photo © John Giammetteo Williams removed the agglomeration of mechanical equipment that had accumulated over time inside Greeley and routed the new building services so that they are largely exposed, but arranged in a thoughtful and integrated way. Photo © John Giammetteo Annabelle Selldorf and Gensler recently revamped Pietro Belluschi’s Manton Research Center (1973) at the Clark Art Institute in the Berkshires. Photo © Jeff Goldberg/ESTO The Manton renovation included the transformation of what had been—when the building was first completed—an indoor sculpture court. It is now a reading room. Photo courtesy the Clark Institute The Manton renovation included the transformation of what had been—when the building was first completed—an indoor sculpture court. It is now a reading room. Photo © Tucker Blair As part of the Manton project, the renovation team reconstructed the former sculpture court’s skylight. It now has baffles to address glair. They also serve to cleverly conceal electric illumination as well sprinklers. Photo © Tucker Blair http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/11971 Tue, 01 Nov 2016 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/11971-bridge-for-laboratory-sciences-at-vassar-college-by-ennead-architects The curving southeast facade features the first major application of a proprietary glass patterned with a UV-reflective coating that can be seen by birds but is virtually invisible to humans. Photo © Richard Barnes 1611-Colleges-Universities-Ennead-Architects-Poughkeepsie-New-York-Bridge-for-Laboratory-Sciences-02.jpg The curving building spans a steep slope and a stream in a neglected corner of the bucolic campus. Photo ©  LRC Group The southwest entrance is clad with a local stone and fiber-cement panels.  Photo © Richard Barnes The fiber cement continues on the northwest facade, where it alternates with glass patterned in a custom frit designed by Ennead. Photo © Richard Barnes Opportunities to meet and gather abound, as with the café seating located in the main spine of the building and in other well-trafficked circulation areas. Photo © Richard Barnes Opportunities to meet and gather abound, as with the café seating located in the main spine of the building and in other well-trafficked circulation areas. Photo © Richard Barnes The building houses classrooms and labs dedicated to a variety of scientific fields of study. Photo © Richard Barnes Image courtesy Ennead Architects 1611-Colleges-Universities-Ennead-Architects-Poughkeepsie-New-York-Bridge-for-Laboratory-Sciences-09.jpg Entry-level plan Image courtesy Ennead Architects 1611-Colleges-Universities-Ennead-Architects-Poughkeepsie-New-York-Bridge-for-Laboratory-Sciences-10.jpg Upper-level plan Image courtesy Ennead Architects A new campus museum quietly serves up a visual banquet. It’s tempting for designers to try to turn art museums into works of art themselves. But what if the client’s directive is just the opposite? A new campus museum in the Bay Area by the New York–based firm Ennead Architects may disappoint those hoping for a bigger architectural statement.

]]> 1412-anderson-collection-at-stanford-university-ennead-architects.asp Tue, 16 Dec 2014 12:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/7526-anderson-collection-at-stanford-university Anderson Collection at Stanford University The Anderson Collection stands across from the Cantor Arts Center, a Greek Revival building only 40 feet away.   Photo © Tim Griffith Anderson Collection at Stanford University The rainscreen is composed of panels of just four different shapes, but by mixing them, the architects were able to create the illusion that there is no regular pattern.   Photo © Tim Griffith Anderson Collection at Stanford University The building’s angled cladding picks up the California sun differently throughout the day.   Photo © Tim Griffith Anderson Collection at Stanford University Rows of windows framed with zinc panels are set into each side of the structure.   Photo © Tim Griffith Anderson Collection at Stanford University The gentle curve of the ceiling bounces daylight from the row of clerestories that cap the building down into the galleries.   Photo © Tim Griffith Anderson Collection at Stanford University The entire second floor is dedicated to gallery space with no set circulation, and open sight lines among the galleries. Visitors can wander freely, taking in the postwar American masterworks on view.   Photo © Tim Griffith Anderson Collection at Stanford University Image courtesy Ennead Architects Anderson Collection at Stanford University Image courtesy Ennead Architects Anderson Collection at Stanford University Image courtesy Ennead Architects goncharj@bnpmedia.com (Joann Gonchar, FAIA) The Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) is inaptly named. The word “gallery” doesn't convey the institution's size and its almost encyclopedic scope, with holdings that number more than 200,000 objects encompassing an array of eras, cultures, and media.

]]> 1302-yale-university-art-gallery-renovation-and-expansion.asp Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/7411-yale-university-art-gallery-renovation-and-expansion The museum consists of three connected structures by (from left to right) Louis I. Kahn (1953), Egerton Swartwout (1928), and Peter Bonnett Wight (1866). Photo © Chris Gardner One of the many galleries is a vaulted space in Swartwout’s building. Image courtesy Ennead Architects Image courtesy Ennead Architects The project includes some new construction, such as a stair-wrapped elevator that is clearly differentiated from the nearby traditional wainscoted galleries by its glass cab and shaft. A new rooftop gallery for temporary exhibitions is decidedly modern. It has a wavelike resin ceiling that appears to float and diffuses daylight entering the room through a skylight. On the outside, the glass-and-zinc-clad addition for the temporary exhibition gallery is set back from the existing parapet to make it almost undetectable from the street. The move also allows space for a sculpture terrace. A solid masonry wall has little insulation value. As a result, a microclimate can form behind wall-hung artwork. The temperature behind a wood-framed painting, for example, can be as much as 15 degrees Fahrenheit lower than the temperature of the room, which can lead to condensation. To address the problem, designers created a vented cavity on the inside face of Swartwout’s and Street’s exterior masonry walls. Thermal diagrams courtesy Simpson Gumpertz & Heger; Axonometric courtesy Ennead Architects Most visitors will be unaware of many of the museum’s technical enhancements. They will not be able to tell, for instance, that a set of stone columns in one of the modern and contemporary art galleries has been moved to make way for a new service core. Visitors will also be unlikely to notice the small, continuous slot between the baseboard and the floor in one of the American painting and sculpture galleries, which hints at the existence of a vented wall cavity. As part of the first phase of the museum’s renovation, the project team replaced the Kahn building’s condensation-plagued steel-and-glass window wall. The new thermally broken aluminum mullions replicate exactly the dimensions of the originals on the exterior. Image courtesy Ennead Architects Inside the galleries devoted to the early Renaissance 13th- and 14th-century Tuscan paintings seem to pop from deep purple walls. The galleries inside the Kahn building, defined by their tetrahedral ceilings of reinforced concrete, are low but loft-like. The laylights topping one of the Street Hall galleries had been covered over to turn the space into a lecture hall. But as part of the renovation, the room has been returned to its original splendor. goncharj@bnpmedia.com (Joann Gonchar, FAIA) From the first glimpse of the $103 million Natural History Museum of Utah in Salt Lake City, the metaphor is unambiguous.

]]> natural-history-museum-utah.asp Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/7880-natural-history-museum-of-utah The museum, which sits in the foothills of the Wasatch Mountains at the edge of the University of Utah campus, is clad in panels made of three different copper alloys. Each is patinating differently, Natural History Museum of UtahEnnead ArchitectsSalt Lake CityThe museum, which sits in the foothills of the Wasatch Mountains at the edge of the University of Utah campus, is clad in panels made of three different copper alloys. Each is patinating differently, creating an effect that resembles sedimentary rock.Photo © Jeff Goldberg / Esto A 60-foot-tall, cathedral-like lobby dubbed the “canyon” is enclosed by faceted drywall planes, joining the museum’s two wings—one for exhibitions and one for research faciliti Natural History Museum of UtahEnnead ArchitectsSalt Lake CityA 60-foot-tall, cathedral-like lobby dubbed the “canyon” is enclosed by faceted drywall planes, joining the museum’s two wings—one for exhibitions and one for research facilities, collections storage, and administration.Photo © Jeff Goldberg / Esto A sculptural stair of board-formed concrete provides a vantage point for activity in the canyon—the museum’s main social space. Natural History Museum of UtahEnnead ArchitectsSalt Lake CityA sculptural stair of board-formed concrete provides a vantage point for activity in the canyon—the museum’s main social space.Photo © Jeff Goldberg / Esto The canyon includes one glazed wall that allows visitors to take in sweeping views of Salt Lake City and the Salt Lake Valley. Natural History Museum of UtahEnnead ArchitectsSalt Lake CityThe canyon includes one glazed wall that allows visitors to take in sweeping views of Salt Lake City and the Salt Lake Valley.Photo © Jeff Goldberg / Esto Ramped walkways with ipé-plank decks and glass balustrades trace a gently ascending route through the museum’s 10 thematic galleries. Natural History Museum of UtahEnnead ArchitectsSalt Lake CityRamped walkways with ipé-plank decks and glass balustrades trace a gently ascending route through the museum’s 10 thematic galleries.Photo © Jeff Goldberg / Esto Although most of the galleries are inwardly focused, a few contain windows so that museumgoers can make connections between the objects on display and the building’s surroundings. Natural History Museum of UtahEnnead ArchitectsSalt Lake CityAlthough most of the galleries are inwardly focused, a few contain windows so that museumgoers can make connections between the objects on display and the building’s surroundings.Photo © Jeff Goldberg / Esto The glazing, which has a frit and a low-e coating, mirrors the sky and the museum's environs. Natural History Museum of UtahEnnead ArchitectsSalt Lake CityThe glazing, which has a frit and a low-e coating, mirrors the sky and the museum's environs.Photo © Jeff Goldberg / Esto The glazing, which has a frit and a low-e coating, mirrors the sky and the museum's environs. Natural History Museum of UtahEnnead ArchitectsSalt Lake CityThe glazing, which has a frit and a low-e coating, mirrors the sky and the museum's environs.Photo © Jeff Goldberg / Esto The glazing, which has a frit and a low-e coating, mirrors the sky and the museum's environs. Natural History Museum of UtahEnnead ArchitectsSalt Lake CityThe glazing, which has a frit and a low-e coating, mirrors the sky and the museum's environs.Photo © Joann Gonchar The building's site includes a trailhead for a popular mountain biking, hiking, and running path. Natural History Museum of UtahEnnead ArchitectsSalt Lake CityThe building's site includes a trailhead for a popular mountain biking, hiking, and running path.Photo © Takayuki Murakami The museum is configured as a three-bar form that steps up with the terrain. Natural History Museum of UtahEnnead ArchitectsSalt Lake CityThe museum is configured as a three-bar form that steps up with the terrain.Photo © Joann Gonchar The canyon includes a floor-to-ceiling case displaying 600 representative objects from the museum's collection and a topographical map of the Intermountain Region. Natural History Museum of UtahEnnead ArchitectsSalt Lake CityThe canyon includes a floor-to-ceiling case displaying 600 representative objects from the museum's collection and a topographical map of the Intermountain Region. Photo © NHMU/Tom Smart The museum commissioned media artist Simon Heijdens to create an interactive exhibit that projects silhouettes of native Utah plants on the canyon walls. Natural History Museum of UtahEnnead ArchitectsSalt Lake CityThe museum commissioned media artist Simon Heijdens to create an interactive exhibit that projects silhouettes of native Utah plants on the canyon walls.Photo © Joann Gonchar The folded planes found in the canyon are reminiscent of a set from the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, but without the sinister overtones. Natural History Museum of UtahEnnead ArchitectsSalt Lake CityThe folded planes found in the canyon are reminiscent of a set from the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, but without the sinister overtones.Photo © Takayuki MurakamiNatural History Museum of UtahEnnead ArchitectsSalt Lake CityThe folded planes found in the canyon are reminiscent of a set from the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, but without the sinister overtones.Photo © Takayuki Murakami The exhibitions were designed by Ralph Appelbaum Associates and include a Past Worlds gallery that covers 225 million years of Utah history. Natural History Museum of UtahEnnead ArchitectsSalt Lake CityThe exhibitions were designed by Ralph Appelbaum Associates and include a Past Worlds gallery that covers 225 million years of Utah history.Photo © NHMU/Tom Smart The canyon is a venue for events such as receptions, lectures, and concerts. Natural History Museum of UtahEnnead ArchitectsSalt Lake CityThe canyon is a venue for events such as receptions, lectures, and concerts.Photo © Takayuki Murakami