Scheduled for completion in 2020, this building will complete the New Mexico Museum of Art’s mission of “One Museum in Two Locations”, providing a new home for their contemporary art collections and shows. The building will provide spaces for collections, galleries, and education.
The Levitated Toy Factory engages the vital growth of downtown while at the same time preserving its presence in an established urban context. The 6,000 s.f. building is filled with decades of history, occupied by Albuquerque Journal reporters and the press association until its recent renovation in 2013.
Located on the Santa Fe Railyard, the building program required flexible ground floor gallery spaces for LewAllen Galleries, with offices on the mezzanine, art storage in the basement, and office spaces for a research and data processing company on the second floor above.