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Originally Posted by HBJ

The Museum of Fine Arts Houston has officially broken ground on its $450 million new campus.
Oct 15, 2015, 12:05pm CDT

The first phase of the project will include the new Glassell School of Art, which replaces the building that has housed the school since 1979. The new building will be 80,000 square feet, nearly double the size of the previous building. It will include space for the junior and adult schools, which serve 7,000 students each year.

Also part of the initial phase is the construction of the Brown Foundation Plaza. Part of the L-shaped Glassell School will be a sloped roof with stairs going down to an amphitheater and up to the BBVA Compass roof garden, which will provide a view of the entire campus.

At the groundbreaking, New York-based Deborah Nevins & Associates was announced as the landscape architect for the project, tasked with unifying the disparate buildings into a pedestrian-friendly and cohesive campus. New York-based Steven Holl Architects designed the Glassell School, the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building and the master plan for the campus. San Antonio-based Lake Flato Architects designed the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation conservation center, which will begin construction next year. St. Louis-based McCarthy Building Cos. is the general contractor.