Kenyon College Studio Art Building

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Location: Gambier, OH

Project Scope: Curtain wall design, glazing system structural engineering

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So construction of the studio art building, with about 40,000 square feet. Is expected to take two years. The integrity of the cemetery will be carefully maintained. Said Tom Lepley, director of facilities planning. The Center for the Arts, with about 30,000 square feet. Will be ready for the 2011-12 academic year, he said. Construction costs for each building will be in the neighborhood of $20 million.

Delivery of the steel trusses from the Cleveland manufacturer this summer for the Center for the Arts was “quite a feat,” Lepley said, but no major problems have surfaced during construction.

“It’s a very, very nice building,” he said. “The skylights are going in now.”

The Center for the Arts includes gallery space, classrooms, and offices for the art history faculty. The formal opening of the building will be in October 2011, when the trustees meet at the College.

Marsh is thrilled with the building’s design. “It’s very exciting to see the amount of space dedicated to exhibition and to see the very thoughtful distribution of space for other activities, for art history, and also for the art faculty.”

She intends to seek and develop exhibitions and programming that serve the College curriculum across various fields of study. “I think that colleges and universities are starting to look to their museums to be so much more effective in the day-to-day mission of teaching,” she said.