Kimball Art Center in Park City - Williams + Tsien
Instead of trying to compete with the alpine landscape of the city, the project defines outdoor halls that become part of the context. The volumes combine glazed brick and a copper enclosure...
Instead of trying to compete with the alpine landscape of the city, the project defines outdoor halls that become part of the context. The volumes combine glazed brick and a copper enclosure...
The proposal is inspired by the poplar trees that grow on the Wasatch mountains. The building is thus drawn up as a trunk, made of local wood, from which the different circulations and uses branch out...
The extension takes up the plot adjacent to the original building with a volume whose facade, of ceramic pieces, includes two accesses at different height through the main avenues of the city...
The proposal for the extension of the art center is conceived as a large glass cloud, with many transparency nuances, which hovers above the existing building, whose roof will become a large terrace...
Park City, in Utah, used to be a silver mining town, but today it lives on tourism, especially during the winter ski season. The town’s Kimball Art Center – where the annual Sundance Film Festival is held yearly at the end of January – was inaugurate