Hasta La Ideas

We pick you up and then drop you back down. Sorry, but that’s just how we roll around here. As positive as that last post was about the Billings Index rise, that doesn’t necessarily mean much to a project that’s getting shut down. So it is for UC Berkley, who wanted to build a swanky new building for the Berkley Art Museum and the Pacific Film Archive, designed by Toyo Ito and “estimated to cost $143 million” according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Unfortunately, as plans had moved forward since its original conception more than three years ago, it was decided that they just hadn’t raised enough money for it and the whole thing would have to be shut down. However, while that building itself might now be just a memory, the university hasn’t given up entirely and hopes to at least do something new (albeit on a tighter budget):

“The creation of a new home for the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in downtown Berkeley continues to be a crucial step in UC Berkeley’s longstanding commitment to the visual arts and to engagement with our broader community,” said UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau. “While the architectural plans will change, what will not change is our shared goal of building a dynamic, welcoming, and seismically safe new museum at the corner of Center and Oxford streets.”

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