Kimball Art Center / BIG

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Courtesy of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)

In approaching the design for the new Kimball Art Center, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) found great inspiration in the urban development of Park City, the Kimball site, and the city’s mining heritage. They feel the form of the new Kimball Art Center emerges where these rich stories overlap. More images and architects’ description after the break.

BIG was particularly moved when a long-time resident of Park City spoke nostalgically about the former Coalition Building, which once stood just south of the Kimball site. It stood 80 feet tall for 80 years as an iconic landmark for Park City and a monument to the mining heritage, until a fire tragically brought it down in 1982. They wanted to recreate some of its attributes in the new Kimball Art Center – not only the proportions and materiality but the history it represented.

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Cite: Alison Furuto. "Kimball Art Center / BIG" 03 Jan 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/196160/kimball-art-center-big> ISSN 0719-8884

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