Designs for the US$220m (£134m, 148.5m euro) Miami Art Museum in Florida, US have been revealed.

The museum – designed by renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron – will be the centrepiece of the Miami Museum Park, which, as previously reported in Leisure Opportunities, will also feature the US$275m (£172m, 188m euro) Miami Science Museum, designed by British firm Grimshaw Architects.

The museum will boast 200,000sq ft of programmable space, more than three times of the museum’s current home. The three-storey building will sit upon an elevated platform and will house an educational complex with a library, an auditorium, classrooms, workshop space, a café and a store, as well as the galleries.

The permanent collection galleries will be located on the first and the second stories, but the latter will also house temporary exhibitions.

The museum is being funded by US$100m of bonds, approved by the people of Miami Dade, and a fundraising campaign is currently underway to raise the balance.

If the project receives planning permission, work is expected to be completed by 2012 for a 2013 opening.