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Smith College's renowned Museum
of Art, art library and art department have a distinguished
new home -- the newly named Brown Fine Arts Center -- thanks
to the completion of a two-year, $35-million building renovation
and expansion. At its outset, the renovation was the largest
capital project in the college's 122-year history.
Led by New
York City-based Polshek Partnership Architects, the renovation
stripped the former 1972 complex down to its steel girders
and then rebuilt it entirely, transforming its architecture
and infrastructure. The art library and department opened
in September, 2002; the center's other key occupant, the
Smith College Museum of Art, opened in April, 2003.
New
features of the 164,000-gross-square-foot facility include
a cutting-edge digital imaging center, updated ventilation
and environmental controls and improved galleries and art
studios. The Hillyer Art Library, regarded as among the
best art libraries at American undergraduate institutions,
was significantly redesigned. The new building features a
greatly expanded technological infrastructure, a dramatic
aesthetic overhaul and improved amenities for students, staff
and visitors.
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