The new BAMPFA strikes a contemporary architectural note in the heart of downtown Berkeley. Photo: Iwan Baan/courtesy Diller Scofidio + Renfro and BAMPFA The new BAMPFA strikes a contemporary architectural note in the heart of downtown Berkeley. Photo: Iwan Baan/courtesy Diller Scofidio + Renfro and BAMPFA The countdown is nearly over. The new home of the Berkeley […]
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Gallery: Fans celebrate Berkeley art museum milestone
Crowds turned out Thursday evening to celebrate a milestone in the new Berkeley art museum project downtown. Photo: Emilie Raguso Thursday evening, community members turned out in droves to sign the final steel beam for Berkeley’s new art museum before it was lifted high into the air by a crane and set in place. The Berkeley […]
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Salvaged trees to be used in Berkeley’s new art museum
The new Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive is currently under construction in downtown Berkeley. Image: Diller Scofidio + Renfro Seven Canary Island pine trees that were cut down in order to allow construction of the new Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive in downtown Berkeley were salvaged and will be used for several interior elements of the new […]
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On the cusp: Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
The former UC Berkeley printing plant that will house the new BAM/PFA has been vacant for several years. Photo, by Emilie Raguso, taken on April 30, 2013. See more photos of what the building’s graffiti-strewn interior looked like in 2010. “It’s been a long hard road. Standing here today I feel both relief and excitement,” […]
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Before new Berkeley art museum can rise, a demolition
A UC Berkeley parking garage at Oxford and Addison is being torn down as part of the construction of a new BAM/PFA. Photo: Tracey Taylor Major demolition is under way in downtown Berkeley on the site of the new location for the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. The UC Berkeley-owned parking lot at […]
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Art museum chief: New space good for Town & Gown
Lawrence Rinder. Photo: Ben Blackwell Yesterday, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive announced it had begun construction work on its new building in downtown Berkeley. The UC Berkeley-owned museum has raised the lion’s share of the $100 million it needs to create a new home for itself on Center Street at Oxford, on […]
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Work starts on new Berkeley Art Museum, to open in 2016
Aerial view of the new BAM/PFA showing the corner of Addison (foreground) and Oxford streets. The new design reunites BAM with the film theater. BAM needs to move out of its current building due to concerns about seismic safety. Rendering: Diller Scofidio + Renfro Construction work has begun on the new Berkeley Art Museum and […]
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Berkeley Art Museum’s architect talks
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 […]
