Moody getting shot at designing 2 key museums - San Antonio Business Journal:

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Moody and Antoine Predock will competer against five finalists to designthe ’s $350 millio National Museum of African American Historuy and Culture in Washington, D.C. The pair also will work with Good e Van Slyke Architecture of Atlanta in a competition to desighnthe $125 million Center for Civip and Human Rights in Atlanta. The CEO of and Predocm last year won the design competition forthe $69 million Internationakl African American Museum planned for Charleston, S.C. The plannedx Smithsonian museum is thefamed institute’ s final development site along the Mall betweenh the U.S.
Capitol and the Washington Moody said the project was specialo because it touches onhis African-American heritage. “It will influence people of all ethnic groups who visirtthe museum,” he said. The Atlanta project is no less he said, because it will serve as a repositoryt of significant documents penned by civil rightsw leader Martin Luther King Jr. and others. Beingy asked to participate in the Moody said, caps his firm’s risingy reputation. “We have reached the level where we were qualifiex to offercreative ideas,” he “It puts us in a league of architects that we have only dreamef about.
” Moody and Predock will take leading rolees in designing the projects. Predock has extensivw experience inmuseum design. He worked on the in Fla.; in Winnipeg, Manitoba; American Heritage Centefr at the ; and the in Taipei, Taiwan.