The Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron has designed the new Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, which is leaving its original site in Overton Park after more than a century. The 10,405-square-meter building will stand at the intersection of Union Avenue and Front Street, at the south end of the historical center of the city of Memphis, close to the banks of the Mississippi River. The principal elements are a sloping plinth and a rectilinear pavilion on it which presents a timber superstructure and an outer cladding that makes reference to the riverside landscape of earthly tones. The main entrance to the pavilion shows two double-height timber columns, over which lies a metal box containing an auditorium seating 175 and facing an inner court. The facade of this suspended volume can be used for open-air film screenings. On top is a observation deck which will serve as a venue for events.