In 2022, Allied Works was selected by the Vero Beach Museum of Art to lead its expansion and renovation. The new museum will enhance capacity to offer exhibitions, education, and outreach opportunities for visitors of all ages — to draw in and engage residents in new ways.
The new building is more than a museum — it is also a space for making, education, and community, and with its gardens, galleries, terraces, and courtyards, it creates an utterly new and immersive world of art. With many front doors, the museum creates a reimagined public realm for the Vero Beach community that is an open and inviting space for art and ideas.
The building is conceived as a series of walled gardens into which galleries, cafes, and classrooms are inserted, creating a sense of wonder and discovery — a place to explore and return to again and again. The building manifests the materiality of the region: walls of local sand and shells; warm, rich colors; and light-filtering layers define the museum as being unique to Central Florida.