The University of California-Berkeley [1] has begun work on a $100 million project to turn a 1939 printing plant into the new Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2]. The 50,000-sf concrete structure will be expanded with a new 30,000-sf steel-clad wing to the north.
Museum galleries will be placed in the existing building, and the new wing will hold 230-seat and 32-seat film theaters, as well as a café. The current museum building has been determined to be seismically unsafe. The Building Team for the donor-funded project includes architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro [3] and EHDD [3].
(http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/place/article/Work-begins-on-Berkeley-museum-film-archive-4272577.php [4])
Adaptive reuse project will transform printing plant into $100 million cultural facility
The University of California-Berkeley has begun work on a $100 million project to turn a 1939 printing plant into the new Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [3].
Links:
[1] http://www.berkeley.edu
[2] http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
[3] http://www.bdcnetwork.com/uc-berkeley-begins-construction-art-museum-film-archive
[4] http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/place/article/Work-begins-on-Berkeley-museum-film-archive-4272577.php
[5] http://www.bdcnetwork.com/sites/default/files/berkeley.jpg
[6] http://www.bdcnetwork.com/sites/default/files/slideshow-images/berkeleyslide.jpg
