The Berkeley Art Museum (BAM) proposal reviewed by SF Chron's John King: "Box of Plenty". Combo comes with a side of images. King says that the modernist masterpiece where the BAM is currently housed will be saved from the wrecking ball (With what program? What for? For how much money into another retrofit? So far I'm not buying it). Keeping in mind that the original BAM has been structurally imperfect in seismically challenged Berkeley, it is a daring move for Ito to promise: "Because of the cellular layout - picture an easygoing egg-carton - the weight will be distributed so evenly that the walls will consist of little more than a 3-inch-thick layer of cement compressed between two inch-thick plates of steel." More in Curbed
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where exactly does one hang art in there?
Stuff that hangs is so last century. Send it to the Fisher's "contemporary" art coffin in the Presidio.
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