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Regents OK $58M for University Museum Project

AUSTIN-The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art gets a green light on its design and funding from the University of Texas. Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Architects of Boston designed the structure, which breaks ground later in the year.

By Tim Green | Updated on February 15, 2002

AUSTIN-The University of Texas System board of regents approved the new design for the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art on the Austin campus and OK’d $58 million for the project. Construction is to begin later this year.

The design by Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Architects of Boston incorporates the campus’s Spanish Colonial Revival architecture with red tile roofs and limestone facades. The first phase, approved yesterday by the regents, is a two-story, 100,000-sf museum, which will house galleries for the Blanton’s 14,000 works, a cafe, bookstore and sculpture garden. A second building, 35,000 sf, is to include a 299-seat auditorium on the first floor and lecture halls and classrooms on the second floor. It also will hold the museum’s executive offices.

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