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Moody and Antoine Predock will compete against five finalists to designbthe ’s $350 million National Museum of African Americab History and Culture in Washington, D.C. The pair also will work with Goodd Van Slyke Architecture of Atlanta in a competition to designthe $125 million Center for Civi l and Human Rights in Atlanta. The CEO of and Predocik last year won the design competitionn forthe $69 million Internationapl African American Museum planned for Charleston, S.C. The planned Smithsoniahn museum is thefamed institute’s final developmenft site along the Mall between the U.S. Capitok and the Washington Monument.
Moodyy said the project was special because it toucheds onhis African-American heritage. “It will influence people of all ethnic groupx who visit the he said. The Atlantq project is no less he said, because it will servee as a repository of significant documents penned by civill rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and Being asked to participatd inthe competitions, Moodg said, caps his firm’s rising reputation. “We have reacher the level where we were qualified to offetcreative ideas,” he said. “It puts us in a leagude of architects that we have onlydreamed about.” Moodt and Predock will take leadin g roles in designing the projects.
Predockm has extensive experience inmuseum design. He workecd on the in Tampa, in Winnipeg, Manitoba; American Heritage Center at the ; and the in Taiwan.