经过国际竞争，里克·马瑟建筑师被选为65年前弗吉尼亚艺术博物馆的总体规划和设计。这标志着该办公室在美国的第一个主要委员会。总部位于里士满的SMBW建筑事务所是该项目的合作者。

After an international field of competitors, Rick Mather Architects were selected to masterplan and design a large addition and renovation to the 65 year old Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. This marks the office's first major commission in the United States. SMBW Architects, a Richmond-based firm, were collaborators on the project.

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扩建后，现有的22300平方米建筑增加了9300多平方米。额外的项目包括一个大型雕塑花园，广泛的新画廊，教育设施，餐厅，咖啡馆，图书馆，行政办公室，和一个景观美化，梯级停车甲板。

The expansion adds more than 9300m² to the existing 22300m²  building. The additional program includes a large sculpture garden, extensive new galleries, educational facilities, restaurant, cafe, library, administrative offices, and a landscaped, terraced parking deck.

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增加的目标是向城市开放主建筑，并为博物馆的艺术收藏提供广阔的新空间。博物馆在新的五层玻璃和石灰石入口处设有两层永久性藏品展厅。其中包括詹姆斯·W和弗朗西斯·G·麦格洛特林收藏的美国艺术品，以及J·哈伍德和路易丝·B·科克伦基金会的美国艺术品，这是该博物馆21世纪的藏品，也是印度、尼泊尔和西藏的主要艺术品收藏国之一。该空间还可容纳专门的临时展览馆一级的国际旅行展览。

The goal of the addition was to open up the main building to the city and provide extensive new space to the museum's art collections. The museum features two floors of permanent collection galleries in the new five level glass and limestone entrance wing. These include American art from the James W and Frances G McGlothlin collection and the J Harwood and Louise B Cochrane Fund, the museum's twenty-first century collection, and one of the countries leading collections of art from India, Nepal, and Tibet. The space also accommodates international travelling shows in the dedicated temporary exhibition gallery level.

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横跨中央中庭的玻璃桥梁将新的侧翼与现有的建筑连接起来，成为连接新旧建筑的主要街道。对现有建筑的翻修包括一个新的教育中心，以及现有画廊的重新配置，这些画廊包括悉尼和弗朗西丝·刘易斯收藏的新艺术、装饰艺术、现代和当代美国艺术，以及博物馆的古代艺术收藏。

Glass Bridges across the central atrium space link the new wing to the existing building, acting as a main street that connects new and old. The renovation to the existing building includes a new education center, and the reconfiguration of existing galleries housing the Sydney and Frances Lewis Collections of Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Modern and Contemporary American art, and the Museum's Ancient Art Collection.

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