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The New VMFA: Building for the Future |
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RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the architectural firm of Rick Mather + SMBW have engaged in planning the largest expansion project in the museum’s history. The expansion will include the addition of 100,000 new square feet of space to the museum and substantial renovation and reworking of the existing building to thoroughly integrate it with the new section. The addition will increase gallery space by nearly 50 percent, making the art collections much more accessible and increasing the museum’s capacity to host major exhibitions. The project also includes development of the museum’s campus, where nearly four acres of surface parking will be reclaimed as landscape in the creation of an extraordinary new sculpture garden. The garden, at the heart of the 13-acre campus, will terrace over a new parking deck, making that structure blend into the landscape. The deck will provide parking for 600 cars, significantly increasing the museum’s parking capacity from its current 275 spaces. This project will transform the VMFA and enhance its potential to serve a larger audience. The project’s conceptual design has been completed,and construction is scheduled to begin in 2004. This exhibition provides a comprehensive look at the schematic design for “The New VMFA” through a detailed model of the building and site, a video movie and computer-animated fly-through, floor plans, and a photomural of a dramatic new atrium that will join the existing structure to the expanded building. Support for this exhibition comes from The VMFA Business Council and the Evans Exhibition Endowment.
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