UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

BERKELEY  DAVIS  IRVINE  LOS ANGELES  MERCED  RIVERSIDE  SAN DIEGO  SAN FRANCISCO SANTA BARBARA  SANTA CRUZ

FACILITIES SERVICES BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 94720-1380 September 27, 2011

TO: City of Berkeley Planning and Landmarks Preservation Commissions FR: Jennifer McDougall, Principal Planner, UC Berkeley RE: New University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA)

Background: Among the largest university art museums in the United States in both size and patronage, the number of visitors to BAM/PFA averages 52,000 per year, and another 48,000 attend showings at the film archive (SMCP, January 2011). The existing BAM/PFA building, completed in 1970, was rated seismically very poor in 1997; in 1999 the physical locations of the program were split and the film component placed in a temporary building, addressing significant seismic risk at the theater. In 2001 a partial retrofit of the existing building addressed a few of the major vulnerabilities; however, in order to fully retrofit the existing building, the introduction of shear walls would reduce the functionality of exhibit space.

In 2008, UC Berkeley presented a design for a new University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) building in downtown Berkeley, to the community and City commissions. The new building would have replaced the existing printing plant building at 2120 Oxford Street, a City of Berkeley landmark, and the existing 250‐space parking structure on Addison Street. Although that design was admired, in 2009, economic uncertainty stemming from the international recession led the museum to explore design alternatives that included maintaining the existing printing plant building if it could result in cost savings.

UC Berkeley is working with Diller Scofidio + Renfro as design architects, and with Executive Architect EHDD, on the current project. Although the project is a reuse and not an historic renovation of the existing printing plant building, Page & Turnbull Architects have assessed conditions of the historic fabric at 2120 Oxford, recommended rehabilitation treatments, and as preservation specialists are working with the team to review design concepts.

Please see attached press release, and the Q&A including responses to many questions from the Community Open house held September 14, 2011. Please also see attached Table of Significant Features, explaining how important historic features are treated in the new design.

Project Overview: The current proposal is comprised of four architecturally distinct elements: the existing production shed of the printing plant; the existing printing plant office block; a new element housing the BAM/PFA cinema and other programs; and a new services (or “back of house”) element housing the BAM/PFA loading facility and other support spaces.

The existing office and production building at 2120 Oxford is approximately 45,500 GSF. A significant challenge is accommodating sufficient gallery space in the existing production shed envelope, while UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE

minimizing costly new construction. The current design proposal would augment the building space with the construction of a new element of some 30,000 GSF, adjoining the office block and anchoring the southwest corner of Addison and Oxford Streets. This new element would house the BAM/PFA cinema and most of BAM/PFA’s researchd an teaching programs.

The parking structure would be removed, and the remainder of the site would be striped for parking. This is expected to accommodate approximately 40 spaces.

CEQA Review: The proposed project is consistent with the UC Berkeley 2020 Long Range Development Plan and the campus expects to complete an addendum to the 2020 LRDP EIR for the project.

Preliminary schedule: We anticipate construction to begin at the beginning of 2013; occupancy may occur in late 2015.

Further questions: Please contact Jennifer with any questions or concerns at (510)642‐7720 or [email protected].

Attachments: Q&A Press Release Graphics Table of Significant Elements and BAM/PFA

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BAM/PFA BUILDING PROJECT

Questions and Answers

BUILDING

Where will the new BAM/PFA building be located?

The museum’s entrance will be on Center Street, with additional frontages on Addison and Oxford streets. The new downtown site will anchor Berkeley’s Arts District and link the west campus entrance and the active downtown arts and commerce districts. Just a block from the Downtown Berkeley BART station, BAM/PFA will count as its neighbors the Berkeley Repertory Theater, Aurora Theater, Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse, and the Bancroft Library’s Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life.

How will the new building relate to the former UCB printing plant?

The Streamline Moderne‐style former printing plant—unoccupied since 2004—will be repurposed to serve as gallery, education, and office space, including some areas created by excavating a basement level. This building will be integrated with an approximately new structure that will include the PFA Theater, Library and Film Study Center, collection study area, special‐event space, café, and back‐of‐house operations. The existing printing plant building is approximately 45,000 gross square feet, and in total the new BAM/PFA will be approximately 82,000 square feet.

The new building is smaller than the current one. How does this improve BAM/PFA?

Despite its smaller size, the new building will be more efficient and will provide more programmatic space than does the current building. The galleries in the current facility are irregular in shape, and most have only three walls, which limits the number of linear feet available for hanging art. Further, the current building’s largest gallery, the 7,000‐square‐foot Gallery B, is of limited use for exhibitions because of its extraordinarily high ceiling, extensive windows, and irregular, concrete walls. The new building, on the other hand, will include versatile gallery spaces that can accommodate works of art in diverse media. So, while there will be fewer square feet of gallery space, the new building will contain 30 percent more linear feet for exhibition. The efficient design of the new building will also 2

provide 100 percent more space dedicated to education and collections access than the current building contains.

Where will the back‐of‐house functions be located?

Back‐of‐house functions will be located on‐site, in close proximity to the galleries and study areas. Frequently exhibited and studied works will be stored on‐site and works on paper will be accessible in an open storage and study area. The majority of the collection in other media will be housed in a university‐owned off‐site storage facility that is home to many of the University of California, Berkeley’s scholarly collections.

Who is designing the new building?

The new building is designed by the New York City‐based firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R). Among DS+R’s recent architectural achievements are Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art; the redesign of Alice Tully Hall, a concert and film facility at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in New York City; a 95,000‐square‐foot expansion of The Juilliard School, which is also part of DS+R’s ongoing work for Lincoln Center; and the High Line, an urban park on a 1.5‐mile stretch of elevated railway in New York’s Chelsea District.

What will the new BAM/PFA look like?

The new BAM/PFA will unite the former printing plant with a bold new architectural form. The design preserves most of the historic features of the former printing plant, including the distinctive façades on Center and Oxford streets, the north‐facing skylights, and the elegant lobby. Through excavation, the printing plant will be greatly expanded, creating an additional floor of gallery and education spaces on a lower level. The ground level galleries are designed so that they appear to float like trays above this excavated space, with light extending from the skylights to the lower level through strategically sited light wells and a double‐height garden at the northwest corner of the building. The unique museum store will occupy a narrow slice of the ground floor along the Center Street façade.

The new structure introduces an innovative formal and material vocabulary that echoes the streamlined curves of the Art Deco style, yet is updated for the 21st century. It will encompass a café that cantilevers above the museum’s Center Street entrance, offering views of the city and campus, and a mezzanine walkway that provides entry to the PFA

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Theater. The external shape of the theater, which is also part of the new structure, echoes its own internal volume, so that from outside it appears as a rounded, almost vessel‐like form. The theater will appear to be suspended above the library and study areas beneath it. The perimeter of these areas comprises a glass curtain wall that creates a welcome transparency between the museumʹs educational program and the civic context.

Embodying a thoughtful and creative amalgam of past and present, the new BAM/PFA will foreground the versatile, high‐quality presentation of art and film, while offering numerous moments of architectural wonder and surprise.

How sustainable will the new BAM/PFA construction be? Will it earn LEED certification?

The campus’s goal for the new building is a minimum of LEED‐Silver certification.

Who is the architect of record?

Architect of record for the new BAM/PFA is EHDD of San Francisco, a nationally recognized architecture firm with a long track record with the University of California, Berkeley, and with exceptional expertise in educational facilities, buildings for science, museums, and zoos.

Why does BAM/PFA need a new building?

The impetus behind the creation of the new building is safety: A 1997 survey found that the museum’s existing facility—a 102,800‐square‐foot reinforced concrete structure—does not meet current seismic standards. A seismic bracing of the building completed in 2001 elevated it from a “very poor” seismic standard to “poor.” This upgrade has enabled BAM/PFA to remain open while it plans and constructs a new facility. The campus has committed to elevating all campus buildings to at least “good” seismic standards.

Will the new building enable BAM/PFA to expand or improve its programming?

The new building will greatly enhance and expand the museum’s programmatic capacities. For the first time in its history BAM/PFA will be able to screen films and videos in a purpose‐built theater, designed specifically for the optimal experience of these media (the former theater

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building was designed as a flat floor multipurpose performance gallery; the temporary location was designed as flexible lecture space). There will be 30 percent more linear feet of exhibition area, in a range of gallery types designed for the diverse needs of both contemporary and historical works of art in a variety of media. The new facility will also include a multi‐ purpose gallery intended for displays of both 2‐D and 3‐D works of art, as well as for performance in various modes, and a new 30‐seat multi‐ purpose screening room that will make possible a variety of screenings and education programs. The museum will additionally have double the amount of space for education and collections access, enabling it to expand its programs to serve the larger and more diverse audiences anticipated at the new downtown location.

Can’t the Ciampi‐designed building be permanently seismically braced?

Bracing the building for the long term would require the construction of interior shear walls, which are composed of braced panels. These would eliminate the open gallery space that the museum requires for its exhibition program. Thus, the building can be permanently braced, but only for another purpose.

Will the museum close during construction of the new building? If so, at what points, and for how much time?

The new building will be constructed on a new site, enabling BAM/PFA to continue programming at the current locations until it is determined that the staff must focus exclusively on preparing to open the new facility. The museum expects any closure period to be relatively brief.

What will happen to the current Mario Ciampi‐designed art museum on Bancroft Way?

The campus will determine the future use of the Ciampi building, which will likely provide academic and support space for campus units with space deficits. Reassignment of the building for these uses could become an impetus for the campus to install interior shear walls that would drastically improve the seismic safety of the building. However, such renovations would be incompatible with the open gallery space that is vital for the museum’s exhibition program.

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Will the PFA Theater be part of the new building?

Yes. One of the many benefits of the new facility is that the PFA Theater will once again be an integral part of the museum, alongside its galleries, education spaces, and administrative offices. Patrons will experience BAM/PFA’s film program in a structure designed specifically for film presentations. Both the current PFA Theater space at 2575 Bancroft Way and the previous film theater, housed downstairs in the current building, are classroom/lecture spaces that were modified for presenting film in a theater setting.

When will construction begin, and when will the new BAM/PFA building open?

The museum anticipates that it will begin construction in 2013. The new museum complex is targeted for completion by late 2015.

Will there be parking at the new BAM/PFA?

The new location is well served by public transit and has several public parking garages within close walking distances. The campus also allows parking in its lots on most weekends and evenings, which tends to be when attendance to the museum and PFA Theater is highest. Also, film programs are only presented during the weekday evenings and on the weekends, when those campus lots are available to the general public.

FUNDING

How will the new BAM/PFA building be funded?

The budget for the new downtown museum project is $100 million, all of which will come from private, non‐state sources. To date, $65 million has been committed, and BAM/PFA is working in partnership with the University to raise the remainder.

OTHER COMMUNITY CONCERNS

How will the historic printing of the UN Charter at the printing plant be commemorated?

Although the exact location is not yet determined, the commemorative plaque will be reused in the building.

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The project would remove a 250‐car parking structure. The project also would remove some street parking to accommodate wider sidewalks: ten spaces at Oxford and perhaps additional spaces at Center Street and Addison. What will be done to address loss of parking downtown?

Visitors to the existing museum customarily arrive by alternative means; the existing museum does not provide parking, and the new museum would be better located to facilitate arrival by alternative modes.

The project would maintain approximately 40 parking spaces at Addison Street; these would be below grade close to the current elevation of the basement level of the existing parking structure. UC Berkeley is exploring possibly renting space in local garages, and development of parking spaces at Shattuck between Berkeley Way and Hearst Avenue, to address some of the day time commuter parking demand dislocated by the loss of the parking structure.

How does the project support community aspirations for Center Street? Could the café be on the street?

The project does not preclude any future for Center Street. There is no loading or service vehicle access planned along the Center Street façade of the proposed museum. The narrow bookstore offers an active, windowed storefront use for Center Street. Areas of the museum that can be accessed without a ticket will include the bookstore, the lobby, the café, and the Matrix gallery as well as library and learning spaces; all ticketed and unticketed spaces will be accessed from the Center Street entrance, maintaining lively pedestrian activity for a potential future plaza.

Neither the initial Downtown Area Plan nor the UC Berkeley Long Range Development Plan anticipated reuse of the existing landmarked printing plant building; reuse of the existing building form places pressures on program spaces. The café space is pushed to the second level as a narrow retail space fronts street‐level windows, and the essential building function as exhibit space occupies entry level spaces as well.

Further, the design goal for the new element generally is to perform as a connector – an interface between city and campus, arts district and commercial center, art and film, old and new. The café cantilever is an extension of this link, expressing activity on the interior and creating a protected entry to the building. It not only reaches out to the city and

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campus to provide views into the structure from downtown Berkeley and the campus, but also reflexively offers views back to each of these locations from its transparent café interior. The cantilevered café and the theater volumes are formally tied together to create a unified image for the new BAM/PFA.

Did you consider closing Addison Street? Could more be done for the Addison Street edge of the project?

The project has been guided as fully as possible by the City of Berkeley Downtown Area Plan as that plan has been in development. To our knowledge, there has not been an initiative to close Addison Street. Even if Addison were to close, access for loading to the building, to allow art to arrive and be removed as exhibits change, would remain critical; the remaining surface parking would also be accessed by Addison Street.

Any project struggles to address competing demands, and the desires for Addison Street are balanced against the desires to activate Center Street, and the operational cost savings in operating a single public entry point.

How will BAM/PFA engage Berkeley City College/teens/families with the move downtown?

In its current Strategic Planning process, BAM/PFA is looking at a number of ways to better engage these groups, and expects the new downtown site will offer tremendous opportunities for collaboration and engagement. BAM/PFA especially hopes to be more welcoming to teen audiences, working with Berkeley High School, and reaching out beyond Berkeley to serve teens through programs and through spaces that are conducive to their needs. BAM/PFA has piloted a number of programs serving families to begin to assess strengths, capacities, and potential community partners. There are no specific plans to work with Berkeley City College currently, but BAM/PFA looks forward to reaching out to the BCC and other neighboring cultural and educational institutions.

How programs will happen in the community gallery?

The community gallery will function much like the existing theater gallery, with shows of works from the BAM/PFA collection and works related to special exhibitions. It will not require an admission ticket for viewing.

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Does there need to be a café in the building, given other coffee and food on Center Street?

An essential aspect of BAM/PFA’s vision for the new building is that it accommodates multiple sites for student and community gatherings, both for informal relaxation and conversation as well as programmed events (music, lectures, etc.). In its current Strategic Planning process, an idea that as repeatedly been brought up is holding such gatherings around food, i.e. in the cafe. Indeed, the sharing of food in conjunction with conversation around art and culture is a growing phenomenon here in the Bay Area and elsewhere in the country, as in the work of the Bay Area collective OPENrestaurant, Portlandʹs literary salon ʺBackroom,ʺ etc. Thus, the cafe is envisioned as a place not only for the regular supply of ordinary light refreshment, but also as a place where audiences can gather to discuss films, and hold informal dialogs scheduled through, for example, the membership meetup.com page.

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BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE ADVANCES PLANS FOR NEW FACILITY, PRESENTS DESIGN TO PUBLIC

New museum complex, designed by celebrated firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro, to be located in the Downtown Berkeley Arts District.

Berkeley, California, September 14, 2011 — The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) today held a community open house to present the schematic design for its new facility to the public. The project, designed by the renowned New York City-based firm of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), will unite a repurposed former UC Berkeley printing plant at 2120 Oxford Street with a new structure.

Located in Berkeley’s arts district, the new building will be bounded by Center, Oxford, and Addison Streets, and will count as its neighbors the Berkeley Repertory Theater; Aurora Theater; View from corner of Center and Oxford Streets. Image courtesy Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse, devoted to traditional music; and the Bancroft Library’s Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life. The new BAM/PFA is targeted for completion in late 2015.

The architect-of-record for the new BAM/PFA building is the nationally recognized, San Francisco-based EHDD.

“UC Berkeley is pleased to share with the campus and wider community its plans for a new building for BAM/PFA,” said UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau. “Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s design successfully integrates great architecture with Cal’s mission of public service and contemporary and civic life. The new museum will make BAM/PFA’s tremendous artistic and intellectual resources more publicly accessible to local, national, and international audiences. We congratulate BAM/PFA on the progress that it is making on this exciting project and look 2 forward to opening the doors of this superb new facility to our students, faculty, staff, and the public.”

BAM/PFA Director Lawrence Rinder added, “BAM/PFA’s dynamic exhibitions and programs will find an ideal home in the new facility designed by DS+R. The firm’s plan respects the grand interior of the existing printing plant, while adding to that building a bold new architectural form filled with sensuous colors, materials, and surfaces. DS+R’S commitment to the integration of cultural institutions into the life of cities is embodied in its embrace of transparency and openness as fundamental design principles. At once beautiful and accessible, the new BAM/PFA will be a destination for art and film lovers from throughout the Bay Area, the nation, and the world.”

Project Background BAM/PFA began planning for a new facility in 1997, when an engineering survey determined that its current building, on Bancroft Way, does not meet present-day seismic standards and cannot be upgraded to meet those standards without eliminating the open space required for the museum’s exhibition program. In 2006, the museum engaged the Tokyo-based firm of Toyo Ito & Associates to design a new building on the University’s downtown site. However, in 2009, economic uncertainty stemming from the international recession led the museum to explore design alternatives.

The museum subsequently convened an architect selection committee composed of campus faculty and administrators and representatives of the museum and community. The committee identified ten national firms and invited them to submit qualifications for the project. From this group, three were selected to make presentations and participate in interviews. The committee’s recommendation of Diller Scofidio + Renfro was endorsed by the BAM/PFA Board of Trustees. 3

Building Design Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s design for the new BAM/PFA combines the 1939 concrete Art Deco-style former printing plant, unoccupied since 2004, with a new metal-clad structure. The new design creates a cohesive and visually arresting space for art, film, education, civic interaction, and administration. Plans call for the industrial building—currently a single-story, skylighted structure with a three-story administrative wing at its east end—to house the museum’s collection and exhibition galleries, a thirty-two-seat screening room, museum store, learning center, K–12 education areas, community gallery, and offices.

The new structure, extending between the corner of Oxford and Addison Streets and the museum’s Center Street facade, includes the 230-seat PFA Theater, Library and Film Study Center, special event space, collection study area, café, and nonpublic areas. The facility is thus defined by two primary and integrated components: the imaginatively repurposed older building and a complementary, forward-thinking

View from northwest. Image courtesy Diller Scofidio + multipurpose structure. Renfro

The entrance to the new BAM/PFA will be on Center Street, on the south side of the former printing building, one block from the Downtown Berkeley BART station. On the north side of the building, an outdoor plaza will provide a welcoming public space. A large section of the new museum will be accessible to the public without an admission fee, including the lobby, multipurpose gallery, MATRIX gallery (devoted to exhibiting work by emerging artists), community gallery, special-event space, and café. The new BAM/PFA is anticipated to achieve LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, given by the U.S. Green Building Council) certification of silver or higher.

Former UC Printing Plant Plans for repurposing the former printing plant include preserving many essential aspects of the building

View of entry from Center Street. Image courtesy Diller Scofidio + Renfro. 4 envelope, including the sawtooth roof and distinctive facade. Work on the interior has been designed with great sensitivity to the original structure, and will include extensive excavation to allow for additional gallery and education spaces, as well as elevators and other required service elements. The building will also be seismically upgraded.

Infused with natural light admitted by three large north-facing skylights, the ground-floor galleries provide 10,800 square feet of exhibition space ideally suited for viewing art. Other ground-floor amenities include the grand lobby; MATRIX Gallery, devoted to the work of emerging artists; and a distinctively designed museum store with large windows running along the Center Street frontage. DS+R’s plans call for the lower level to be excavated to obtain 12,500 square feet of additional gallery space, much of which is particularly suitable for light-sensitive work, as well as public study areas, a seminar room, a thirty-two-seat screening room, and spaces specially designed for K–12 visitors. The total number of linear feet of wall space for exhibitions will be approximately thirty percent greater than in the current building.

New Structure The new structure will be most visible at the corner of Oxford and Addison Streets, across from the western entrance to the UC Berkeley campus, where it will appear to hover above the excavated lower level. Rinder says that “this minimally sculpted volume—a sensuous cipher—will instill a sense of curiosity about the PFA Theater within.” Below the PFA Theater, a lower level will contain the Film Library and Study Center, open collection storage and study areas, and other education-related spaces. Created to accommodate a range of programming, the theater itself will include a screen as large as fifteen-by-thirty-six feet and will be suited to a variety of media formats, including 35mm, 16mm, and both regular- and super 8mm film, as well as HDTV and SDTV. It will also accommodate lectures and performances with a stage area suitable for a small band, orchestra, or other musical accompaniment to film.

The compelling forms and materials of the theater structure will appear to drape over the roof of the printing plant’s administration building and cut through the eastern end of the sawtooth skylights to create a dramatic connection to Center Street, where they resolve into a double-height atrium and a café that cantilevers 5 over the museum’s main entrance. This striking intervention will serve as an architectural spine that unites the two buildings into a single composition.

Funding The museum has received commitments for $65 million of its $100 million campaign.

Diller Scofidio + Renfro Diller Scofidio + Renfro is widely celebrated for cultural projects that play an integral role in the life of the cities in which they are located. The studio is led by three partners—Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, and Charles Renfro—who collaborate with a staff of seventy-five architects, designers, artists, and administrators. Recent projects include ongoing design work for New York City’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, including, to date, the redesign of Alice Tully Hall (opened 2009) and a 95,000-square-foot expansion of The Juilliard School (opened 2009). Also in New York City, the first portion of the High Line, an urban park on a 1.45-mile stretch of elevated railway in New York City’s Chelsea District, designed in collaboration with James Corner Field Operations, opened to the public in 2009; the second portion opened in 2011.

In 2006, the firm completed Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art, which combines civic and cultural experiences while providing a contemplative space that reveals shifting perspectives of the waterfront. DS+R’s current projects include The Broad, the new museum of The Broad Art Foundation, in Los Angeles, scheduled to open in 2013; “Bubble,” a seasonal expansion planned for the cylindrical courtyard of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden on Washington, D.C.’s National Mall; and the Museum of Image & Sound, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which is conceived as an extension of the Copacabana Beach promenade designed by Roberto Burle Marx.

In 1999, the MacArthur Foundation presented Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio with the “genius” award for their commitment to integrating architecture with issues of contemporary culture. They were recently made fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects and were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Other prestigious awards and honors received by Diller Scofidio + Renfro include: the National Design Award from the Smithsonian; the Brunner Prize from the American Academy of the Arts and Letters; an Obie for an off-Broadway 6 theater production; the AIA President’s Award; the AIA Medal of Honor; and AIA Design Awards for numerous projects.

University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Founded in 1963, the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) is UC Berkeley’s primary visual arts venue and among the largest university art museums in terms of size and audience in the United States. Internationally recognized for its art and film programming, BAM/PFA is a platform for cultural experiences that transform individuals, engage communities, and advance the local, national and global discourse on art and ideas. BAM/PFA’s mission is “to inspire the imagination and ignite critical dialogue through art and film.”

BAM/PFA presents approximately fifteen art exhibitions and 380 film programs each year. The museum’s collection of over 16,000 works of art includes important holdings of Neolithic Chinese ceramics, Ming and Ching Dynasty Chinese painting, Old Master works on paper, Italian Baroque painting, early American painting, Abstract Expressionist painting, contemporary photography, and video art. Its film archive of over 14,000 films and videos includes the largest collection of Japanese cinema outside of Japan, Hollywood classics, and silent film, as well hundreds of thousands of articles, reviews, posters, and other ephemera related to the history of film, many of which are digitally scanned and accessible online.

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Press Contacts For information on the BAM/PFA building project: Jeanne Collins or Libby Mark, Jeanne Collins & Associates, LLC, New York City, 646-486-7050 or [email protected]

For the University of California, Berkeley: Kathleen Maclay, 510-643-5651 or [email protected] University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive design proposal, September 2011 University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive design proposal, September 2011 University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive design proposal, September 2011 University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive design proposal, September 2011 University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive design proposal, September 2011 University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive design proposal, September 2011 University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive design proposal, September 2011 University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive design proposal, September 2011 University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive design proposal, September 2011 University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive design proposal, September 2011 University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive design proposal, September 2011 University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive design proposal, September 2011 University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive design proposal, September 2011 University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive design proposal, September 2011 University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive design proposal, September 2011 University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive design proposal, September 2011

CHARACTER‐DEFINING FEATURES OF 2120 OXFORD, STATUS IN PROPOSED PROJECT Item Character Defining Feature Where Feature Status of Feature with implementation of (per Significance Diagrams, Appears BAM PFA project (preliminary) 2010, Page & Turnbull) Location in downtown 1 Berkeley, adjacent to UC n/a Unchanged campus Overall form and organization of the building, divided into a three‐story Form altered to four parts: three‐story office administration building wing; two‐story printing plant shed; high 2 (originally used for editors’ n/a volume theater addition with extension over offices) and a two‐story printing plant; three‐story back of house printing plant shed building. (originally housed physical printing functions) Altered in part by extension of theater Profile of printing plant Printing plant 3 addition and new cantilever over Center shed’s sawtooth roof shed Street; maintained in part. The original character of the shed building will be retained as fully as possible. With the exception of the glass block windows, the façade will remain largely unaffected. The design intent is for the interior surface of the Board‐formed concrete roof to be retained, however for acoustical construction, including Printing plant reasons, an acoustical plaster will be added 4 facades, floors, walls, and shed within the sawtooth bays that will be colored roofs to match the original concrete. Insulation and a vapor barrier are required on the perimeter walls and so new wall finish will be added on top of the insulation and vapor barrier to match the character of the original walls. WPA Moderne‐style design Primarily and details, including tiered apparent on 5 Largely intact and restored pilasters, fluted spandrel administration panels, and lighting fixtures building The team is examining whether to retain or Multi‐light, steel sash awning Administration replace multi‐light windows, which may be a 6 windows with clear glass building cost concern. If replaced, the design would (still operable) not replace the multi‐light style.

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Item Character Defining Feature Where Feature Status of Feature with implementation of (per Significance Diagrams, Appears BAM PFA project (preliminary) 2010, Page & Turnbull) Removed and replaced with windows that have greater transparency to street; Glass block wall sections on Printing plant 7 considering opportunity for some reuse of south facade of printing plant shed glass block in landscape or in back of house building on Addison. Main entry moved to Center Street; staff Main entry with cantilevered entry at Oxford remains, most features canopy, original aluminum Administration 8 restored. New entry doors will likely be doors, original aluminum building needed for accessibility and energy sconces, and bronze plaque performance. First floor lobby with terrazzo floor, curving terrazzo stair with aluminum Administration 9 Retained, restored railing, plaster walls, and building original light fixtures (interior) Second floor stair lobby with Administration 10 terrazzo floor and aluminum Retained, restored building railing (interior) Second floor library with Administration Library removed for more efficient open 11 built‐in oak cabinets and building office layout shelving (interior) Steel and glass interior partitions removed; Production shed with two‐ volume largely retained below the sawtooth story volume and industrial roof with additional height at locations where character, especially the Printing Plant first floorn is ope to basement; north‐facing 12 sawtooth roof with north‐ Shed skylights mostly retained and altered in part facing skylights, steel‐and‐ by cantilever over Center Street; wood block glass partitions, and redwood flooring to be replaced with new flooring that block flooring (interior) has a similar character to the existing.

(The Historic Structure Report for the building at 2120 Oxford Street – the UC Printing Plant building ‐ is available on the web at http://www.cp.berkeley.edu/CP/PEP/History/planninghistory.html ‐‐ see under “off campus” buildings, UC Printing Plant)

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