Donald Fisher (GAP founder) unveiled plans for a 100,000 square foot contemporary art museum in the Presidio.
In the photo: architectural drawing of Don's Fischer's proposed museum at the Presidio.
Designed by New York City firm, Gluckman Mayner Architects, the white and glass Contemporary Art Museum at the Presidio would house the extensive contemporary art collection of Gap Founders Doris and Don Fisher. That collection will fill up to 60 percent of the 55,000 square feet of galleries. The museum will also curate rotating exhibitions from other collections.
"There's too much good art in the basements of museums," Fisher said of his intention to build a new museum to house the more than 1,000 pieces of contemporary art that he and his wife have collected over the past 30 years.
The Fishers' plans also call for renovating one of the red brick barracks buildings across the street from the proposed gallery site for museum offices, a bookstore and teaching facilities.
The proposed museum site, at the southern end of the main parade ground, is now a seven-acre parking lot. Plans call for landscaping the main parade ground all the way north to Crissy Field.
The Presidio Historical Association has submitted a competing proposal to build a history museum on the same site. It will cost $45 million to build, and no money has yet been raised. The Fishers, on the other hand, will pay to build their proposed museum and will also endow the collection and some of its operating expenses, Fisher said.
"We're making a proposal. They're making a proposal. It's up to the Presidio trust to make a decision," Don Fisher said. "I hope they will choose us."
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1 comments:
I'm amazed more people aren't p-o'd about this. The destruction of the historic sense of place that will occur around the parade ground --despite Fisher's restoral of the same-- will be irreversable. They might as well sell the whole thing off to the developers (please don't!) The design for the museum is nice enough; there must be some other location on the Presidio where they could place it, not that the bowling alley that would be torn down is at all historic, where it won't impose itself on the existing scene.
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