DESTINATION -museum's mission

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DESTINATION -museum's mission is to "inspire minds through nature and science," museum design includes both natural, such as biology and geology, together with technological sciences and engineering, with completion targeted for early 2013.

The building, designed by the Los Angeles architectural firm morphosis, built on the 4.7 hectare site at the northwest corner of Woodall Rodgers Freeway and Field Street at Victory Park. The 180,000 square foot building will be 170 meters tall and 14 stories high and will resemble a "big cube floating above the base of a beautiful site," according to a press statement of the museum.

The interior will include five floors of public space exhibition gallery housing 10, including children and the courtyard outside the museum. Other features will be glass enclosed lobby and terrace adjacent to the center of view; exhibition galleries; education wing; 300-seat digital cinema; auditorium, cafes, shops, and offices.

One of the signature feature is a 54-foot escalator continuous flow contained in the 150-foot tubelike structure that extends outside the building. This will bring guests from the light filled atrium lobby to the upstairs museum.

Until now, the museum nearly $ 125 million of capital committed to the goal of $ 185 million, a statement said. That the initial amount will fund the site acquisition, exhibition planning and design, construction, education programs and eternal.

Dallas' Balfour Beatty Construction is the general contractor for the project. Thom Mayne of the building design morphosis, while Talley Associates in Dallas is a landscape architect.