Sources: Mass MoCA, Bruner/Cott + Associates, Inc.
This spring, my intro architecture studio class took a field trip to Mass MoCA, a great example in how old factory buildings are renovated and transformed into a contemporary art place.
Mass MoCA locates in North Adams, MA. Its site was the former factory building of Sprague Electric Company. North Adams was a industrial town in history. Pririor to the Sparaque Electric Company, the site had been used for a mill factory and print work factory. Here is a complete history of Mass MoCA: click
MASS MoCA was opened in May, 1999. It is housed on a 13-acre campus of renovated 19th-century factory buildings. It has 19 galleries and 100,000 sq ft (9,300 m2) of exhibition space. In addition to galleries and performing arts spaces. MASS MoCA also rents space to commercial tenants.The complex occupies nearly one-third of the downtown business district.
By coupling the versatility and size of its spaces with the latest digital, fiber optic, and new media technologies, MASS MoCA is able to present and catalyze the creation of works that can be shown nowhere else in the world. Actually, its unique site gives more meaning to the works housing in the museum, expanding and redefining the nature of contemporary art.
And no wonder the Wall Street Journal commented on Mass MoCA renovation project: I have seen the future and it's Mass MoCA.
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