The National Museum of Australia is set to undergo an $11 million extension designed by the original building’s architects Ashton Raggatt McDougall (ARM).
The architects have been asked to continue the design in the existing style of bold colours. The brief is to create more space for exhibits and to open the building up to views of Lake Burley Griffin.
The new café will feature floor-to-roof windows at the back of the building to give patrons views out across the lake.
The Canberra Times reports that the extended colourful tiled facade of is likely to spark debate about the building design.
The pixelated facade of the administration building was created in reference to the raised braille dots on the original building, which had spelt out words and phrases such ''genocide'' and ''shame Australia''.
Museum director Andrew Sayer also told the newspaper that they were not concerned about using the original architects following strong criticism of the original museum design.
Images: Canberra Times
