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KR Provides Engineering Design Services to Mystic Seaport Museum

By KR Projects

New York Times, May 12, 2015

Kohler Ronan is pleased to have provided MEP/FP engineering design services in support of a truly unique space at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, CT.

Due to open in September of 2016, the Thompson Exhibition Building will afford the Mystic Museum a new visitor center, gift shop and versatile exhibition space. In addition to its striking architecture, the 14,000 sf wood and glass structure incorporates some interesting engineering design features including closed loop geothermal heating and cooling systems, museum quality temperature and humidity controls, custom sprinkler systems, and specially designed fabric ducts to coordinate with the particular slope and structure of the building.

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Recreating Adam, From Hundreds of Fragments, After the Fall

By KR Projects

New York Times, November 8, 2014

“Recreating Adam”: It happened at 6 on a Sunday night. Adam — a strapping, 6-foot-3-inch marble sculpture by the Venetian Renaissance master Tullio Lombardo — fell to the ground on a patio at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, smashing into hundreds of pieces. “Nobody knew what had happened — it could have been foul play,” said Jack Soultanian, a conservator who was called to the museum that night in 2002.

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