Kimball Art Center expansion draws 'largely positive' opinions
http://www.kimballartcenter.org
Open houses continue as City Hall considers the redone designs
By Jay Hamburger - The Park Record
http://www.parkrecord.com/park_city-news...xpansion-draws-largely-positive-opinions
Leonard Razin has been skiing in Park City since 1964, the opening year of the ski area that would eventually become Park City Mountain Resort.
Now living in Thaynes Canyon after retiring in Park City in 1994, Razin looks favorably at the idea to expand the Kimball Art Center. The historic building on Park Avenue dates to before Razin started visiting Park City, but he sees the expansion as something that fits well at the site.
Razin was one of the people who attended an open house at the Kimball Art Center on Saturday as the not-for-profit's leaders continue to engage City Hall in discussions about the expansion.
"I like the openness of it and the fact you can see. There's so much visibility into the building," Razin said about the expansion blueprints...
...The Kimball Art Center recently unveiled a redone concept for the expansion after an earlier one was widely criticized as a building that would not fit along Main Street. The expansion is planned for the art center's patio at the high-profile Main Street-Heber Avenue intersection.
A renowned Danish architectural firm, Bjarke Ingels Group, designed the first iteration and, after the criticism, the one that is now under consideration. City Hall is reviewing the Kimball Art Center's submittal against the municipal government's tight Old Town design guidelines.
The expansion would entail a 15,000-square-foot addition made of concrete to the building. The height would range from 32 feet tall to 46 feet tall. The expansion would double the square footage of the art center and include space for exhibitions and programs as well as 4,000 square feet for a Children's Interactive Discovery Center and 3,000 square feet for an education studio...
Three additional open houses are planned at the Kimball Art Center. The schedule:
• Wednesday from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m.
• Friday from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m.
• Saturday from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m.
More information is available about the expansion on the Kimball Art Center's website,
www.kimballartcenter.org/building-proposal/. The art center is accepting comments via email at
[email protected].
http://www.kimballartcenter.org/building-proposal/
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