Museum News - Dia Center for the Arts and Duke University both announce plans to build new museums - Brief Article

Art in America, July, 2000

Dia Center for the Arts started work last month on a new 292,000-square-foot facility in Beacon, located some 60 miles north of New York City along the Hudson River [see "Front Page," May '99]. The building, a disused paperboard factory, will undergo an extensive $20-million renovation designed by OpenOffice, a firm led by architects Linda Taalman, Alan Koch, Galia Solomonoff and Lyn Rice.

Architect Rafael Vinoly has been selected to design the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, N.C. Among recently completed projects by the Uruguayan-born, New York-based architect are the Tokyo International Forum, a $1.6-billion cultural center, and Philadelphia's Regional Performing Arts Center. Construction of the Nasher Museum, expected to cost $16 million, is set to begin next year. The project was initiated with a $7.5-million gift from Dallas real-estate developer, collector and philanthropist Raymond D. Nasher, who graduated from Duke in 1943.