Visual Arts Complex
www.colorado.edu/arts/VisualArtsComplex/
Project Manager:
Bill Williams
William.d.williams@colorado.edu
Contractor: Mortenson
Architects: OZ Architecture & Kallmann, McKinnell & Wood Architects
Benefits: The Visual Arts Complex will house The Department of Art and Art History and the CU Art Museum (to be renamed the University of Colorado Art Museum). The complex will be dedicated to fostering imagination and creativity, and to encouraging dialogue on visual arts, technology, and culture. Programming will incorporate as many as three other complementary curricular units, to create a new cross-disciplinary paradigm for education in the arts and technology in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain region.
Updates: Classes are underway in the bew building!
Current and Upcoming Construction Projects and Campus Detours
Gross Square Feet: 170,000
Total Project Cost: $63.5 million
Construction Start: April 2008
Substantial Completion: November 2009
Art and Art History Occupancy: January 2010
Art Museum Occupancy: March 2010