CORNING — A new north wing is in the works at the Corning Museum of Glass, which unveiled plans for the expansion project today.
Architect Thomas Phifer and Partners designed the 100,000-square-foot, $64 million expansion scheduled for completion in 2014. Corning, Inc. (NYSE: GLW) fully funded the project.
“Over the past decade, we’ve experienced tremendous growth: in our collections; in our increasingly diverse audiences; and in the breadth and ambition of our public programs, especially those that allow visitors to experience the energy of artists and designers at work,” Karol Wight, the museum’s executive director, said in a release. “This is a transformative design that responds to those demands and further enables us to bring glass to life for the 400,000 people who visit our campus each year.”
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The project will create 26,000 square feet of gallery space to showcase the museum’s growing collections of large-scale contemporary works of art and design in glass. It will feature filtered natural daylight and also accommodate a new temporary exhibition gallery devoted to contemporary art and design.
Work will also include the renovation of the ventilator building of the former Steuben Glass factory adjacent to the museum’s building. The renovation will provide a new venue for the museum’s live glassmaking presentations in a space that will accommodate 500 people through retractable banked seating and a gallery-level balcony that offers a 360-degree view of the glassmaking below.
The museum is also working with landscape architects Reed Hilderbrand Associates to design new outdoor gathering areas including a one-acre campus green.
Other elements of the project include transforming a theater space into an additional live glassmaking venue, renovating the museum’s café, adding new education space, adding new office and storage spaces, and relocating and improving parking for bus groups.
The Corning Museum of Glass (www.cmog.org) also includes The Studio, a year-round glassmaking school and creative center, and the Rakow Research Library.
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