Word: fogg
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Gwathmey has said the new building was initially commissioned for $6 million, but Fogg Art Museum Director of Public Relations Peter Walsh said the success of the fundraising drive led the University to increase the scope of the project. Walsh added that the original plans called for a two-story building, but the new wing will now have two-and-a-half stories...
...that it shows not only the design of the building, but also its relation to neighboring buildings. The architects seem to have fulfilled Harvard's wish of unifying the museums. One of the building's designers, Charles Gwathmey, who will be discussing his firm's work at the Fogg next Thursday, said last week that the project "imaged [the museums] into a kind of architectural assemblage that would present the Fogg as an institution of parts but all interconnected." Accordingly, the plans demonstrate how the architects integrated old and new into a cohesive unit, both structurally and aesthetically...
...modern three-story structure is to be joined to the Fogg on Prescott Street, with its main entrance through the second floor of the Fogg. Not only will the location compress the space between exhibits, but it is hoped that it will make what is now a series of tar paths and dumpsters visually pleasing. The new complex will also be integrated with its famous neighbor, the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, which was designed by French architect Le Corbusier. The ramp from the Carpenter Center which now opens into the unused rear of the Fogg will lead...
Design-wise, the simple, rectangular building will complement the ultramodern, cement Carpenter Center and the majestic red-brick Fogg without mimicking either. To enhance the structural unity are the proposed exterior materials, "warm gray" porcelain metal panels, honed, green Vermont slate tiles and flame-finished pink granite, "intended to mediate the monolithic scale of the concrete Carpenter Center on the one hand, and the brick of the Fogg on the other...
Although the public opening of the exhibit was slightly delayed because an item in the collection was held up at customs in Detroit, the rest of the collection went up as planned. The plans are being shown in the west wing of the Fogg through the middle of March...