Art Museums Going Green!

In late 2009, Lawrence Rinder, director of the University of California, Berkeley, Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, stood alone and despondent in an abandoned building recently inhabited by squatters.

The building, a relic from the Works Project Administration and once home to a printing press, had been slated for demolition, to be replaced by a new home for the museum, designed by the Japanese architect. 

Then, in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, budget constraints led the museum to abandon the construction project.

But as Mr. Rinder stood amid the squalor, sun pouring through the skylights, he had an epiphany. “I did a double take,” he said. “I looked around and thought, this has the bones of a really fine museum, and more specifically, one that would suit our particular needs.”

Soon, plans were underway to salvage the building and refashion it as the museum’s new home.

More at source: New York Times

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