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Over the last decade, a spray of new museums of contemporary art has popped up to grapple with that challenge. Miami opened one in 1996, the same year Chicago expanded its version. Last year architect Will Bruder carved one out of a multiplex cinema in Scottsdale, Ariz., and MoCA Denver moved to a 10,000-sq.-ft. permanent home. Cincinnati recently announced that the dynamic female architect Zaha Hadid would design its contemporary arts center. And just last month the biggest of them all, Mass MoCA, opened in North Adams, Mass. Its name is doubly apt: housed in an abandoned...
Originally the brainchild of Thomas Krens, then head of the nearby Williams College Museum of Art and currently the expansion-minded director of the Guggenheim, Mass MoCA was supposed to be a big splashy gallery, similar in concept to the Guggenheim in Bilbao. The same architect, Frank Gehry, and other big names, worked on the initial plan. But in 1988 Krens moved to the Guggenheim, and the economic boom known as the "Massachusetts Miracle" evaporated, taking the funding with it. Joseph Thompson, Krens' successor, was left holding the baby. He has proved a shrewd parent. Thompson and a local architectural...
Less than four months after unveiling plans for a $200 million science initiative in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the University had selected an architect, location and preliminary design plans for a $25 to $30 million life science center, which will house the newly-created Center for Genomics and Proteomics...
Cuno said he had asked world-renowned Italian-architect Renzo Piano, who attended the meeting, to examine the range of possibilities for the Mahoney's site...
...Finally, architect Renzo Piano's talent and charm may be easing the project's path. By getting Piano to turn from planning for the Fogg and Sackler renovations to this new Mahoney project, Cuno bought a very convincing advocate for the project...