Charles Renfro, Ricardo Scofidio, and Elizabeth Diller. BAM/PFA Building Project News Center By Preeti Talwai “Our work started out of a museum wall,” said architect Elizabeth Diller on April 18, beginning the last lecture in the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design’s spring series. Addressing an audience that ran the gamut from students to experienced professionals […]
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Berkeley buildings are winners in architecture awards
The YMCA-PG&E Teen Center in downtown Berkeley, designed by Noll & Tam Architects, was a winner in the AIASF awards The San Francisco chapter of the American Institute of Architects recently announced the winners of its 2012 Design Awards, and four Berkeley projects were awarded in the progam, from a total of 26 across the Bay […]
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The ‘before’ pictures: Berkeley Art Museum/PFA
Call it “beautiful decay”: these stunning photographs, taken by David Stark Wilson, show the interiors of the future home of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA). Just as with the new Magnes, which unveiled its new space on Sunday, BAM/PFA is to be housed in a 1920s-era 1939 building originally designed as a printing […]
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Berkeley Art Museum mixes old with eye-catching new
The new BAM/PFA entry from Center Street. A café suspended above the entry acts as a canopy. All photos courtesy of Diller Scofidio + Renfro Well over 100 people came out Wednesday night to see for the first time what Berkeley’s new art museum will look like — once it sees the light of day, […]
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Berkeley’s future art museum already a magnet for art
A certain white wall on Center Street is clearly proving very inviting for street artists on the hunt for a fresh canvas. The building on the corner of Center and Oxford, which will one day house the Berkeley Art Museum after it moves from its seismically unsafe home on Bancroft Way, has been used by a […]
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UC Berkeley stands by pledge to fund art museum
Future site of BAM-PFA. Photo: UC Berkeley. The Chronicle’s Matier & Ross column today leads with a story about UC Berkeley pledging to spend up to $20 million on its new art museum, despite being financially strapped to the extent it has been forced to raise tuition fees by 8% next fall. This is not […]
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Berkeley Art Museum selects architects for new home
Future site of BAM-PFA. White building is former printing plant. Photo: UC Berkeley. The Berkeley Art Museum-Pacific Film Archive has chosen New York architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro to design its new building in downtown Berkeley. The announcement follows a nationwide search which saw ten architecture firms considered for the project. DS+R is tasked with […]
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Berkeley Art Museum seeks architect, again
Following its decision to move into the former University of California printing plant at Center and Oxford streets in downtown Berkeley (pictured top right), the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is looking for an architecture firm to revamp the space for them. According to John King in today’s Chronicle, ten architectural firms have submitted […]
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Berkeley Art Museum plans to revamp printing plant
The Berkeley Art Museum is looking at recycling one of Berkeley’s 1930s building after plans to build a new museum, designed by “starchitect” Toyo Ito at an estimated cost of up to $200m, were scuppered for lack of funds. The Architect’s Newspaper reports that the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive is considering revamping the 1939 […]
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UC drops plans for Toyo Ito-designed museum
UC Berkeley has abandoned its plan to construct a new $143m Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive downtown designed by “starchitect” Toyo Ito. Read the full story in today’s Chronicle. [Photo: Photo: Kuramochi / Jeanne Collins & Assoc.]
