The Speed museum

The new structure located on the U of L Campus, to the north of the Speed’s historic original building is designed to be largely transparent—literally opening the Speed to the community. The project features a new Art Park and public piazza on the Speed’s 6-acre site.  The site is a modern-day realization of an idea first conceived by the Olmsted Brothers.  The total master plan consists of three phases and is estimated eventually to cost approximately $79 million for construction and growth to the Museum’s endowment. The budget for the first phase was $57 million, which includes construction of the new North Building, South Building Theater and the adjacent Art Park and Piazza.

Design and engineering services include streetscape improvements along the 3rd Street corridor, adjacent to The Speed Museum.

The vehicular entry procession has been rerouted around an existing parking garage.  Improvements around the existing parking garage were done in conjunction with the public spaces around the Speed expansion.  

The CARMAN office was selected to serve as the local Landscape Architect and Civil Engineer of record and worked closely in conjunction with WHY Architecture of Los Angeles and New York and the local team of K Norman Berry Architects.  CARMAN’s involvement includes the design of the Art Park, the Piazza, the Outdoor Cafe, Third Street Streetscape and all other exterior spaces that overlap with the University of Louisville open space areas adjacent to the Speed.