Fogg Art Museum Addition | 32 Quincy Street | Cambridge

Re: Fogg Art Museum Addition

5946074004_f56e1206b3_b.jpg
 
Re: Fogg Art Museum Addition

I didn't realize that the Fogg redo was so close to a facadectomy or perhaps in keeping with modern medicine done by Hahhhvd Docs -- perhaps its an inverse of a face transplant - -they transplanted a body onto the existing face (LoL)
 
Re: Fogg Art Museum Addition

whighlander said:
I didn't realize that the Fogg redo was so close to a facadectomy or perhaps in keeping with modern medicine done by Hahhhvd Docs -- perhaps its an inverse of a face transplant - -they transplanted a body onto the existing face (LoL)
Click to expand...

I'll stick with the "Body Transplant" -- model -- the question is where is the head?
 
Re: Fogg Art Museum Addition

thanks for the pic update! you have some beautiful shots in there.
 
Delayed till fall of 2014

THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS disclosed today, following a review of construction and other schedules, that the renovated Fogg Art Museum building (the future home of the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Sackler museum collections)—will open to the public in the fall of 2014, nine months to a year later than previously expected. (See models of the renovated space and reinstalled galleries.) The revised schedule, according to a spokesman, reflects several factors:

Skanska, the general contractor, now has a better estimate of the time required to complete the construction elements of the project (which it describes as $203 million to $216 million of work)—particularly those elements involved in bracing the historic façade of the Fogg while the rear of the structure was removed and new subsurface floors were created, and restoring the retained portion of the façade itself. (See a photographic record of the construction in progress.)
The museums have a better sense of the logistics of moving collections from the Fogg, the Sackler, and the former Busch-Reisinger facility (now razed as part of the Fogg reconstruction and expansion), and to and from the secure off-site storage facility.
And, museum staff have more accurately calculated the challenges of reinstalling the integrated collections into the new 43,000 square feet of gallery space that the construction will yield (more than 40 percent larger than the 33,000 square feet of galleries in the old Fogg, Sackler, and Busch-Reisinger combined).
The steel skeleton of the Fogg addition, designed by Renzo Piano, is being rapidly erected now; the building is expected to be weather-tight by the end of this calendar year, with interior construction continuing, and then making way for the protracted work of reinstalling the works of art and the museums’ curatorial, conservation, and other staff who have been dispersed in recent years, and fitting up the new centers where faculty members and students can study works from the collections.
Click to expand...


http://harvardmagazine.com/2012/04/harvard-art-museums-reopening-delayed-2014
 
Re: Fogg Art Museum Addition

Amazing how much asbestos there is still hanging around. We'll be finding it centuries from now, like unexploded WWI ordinance.
 
Re: Fogg Art Museum Addition

I can't wait for this to be finished. I'm not much of a museum goer but the Fogg has always been my favorite.
 
Re: Fogg Art Museum Addition

Construction started over 3 years ago and still has a long way to go. Maybe even another year. Long slog.
 
Re: Fogg Art Museum Addition

Thanks for all the pics, BeeLine. And can I just say I love how this one page spans almost two years of time....you can just scroll down the page and watch the building grow!
 
Re: Fogg Art Museum Addition

All I can say is "WOW!" Thanks Paul for posting!!
 
Re: Fogg Art Museum Addition

Another Harvard monstrosity...it's a frankenbuilding. This is a murderer's row of architectural experimentation gone wrong. This mishmash mess, the GSD and the ridiculous science center make quite a corner for the campus.

At least the Carpenter Center worked out...But batting .250 (worse if you could the crappy sackler building) is no great shakes.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top