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Visual Arts Building, University of Iowa 

Photographer: Michael Moran 

Architect/Designer: Steven Holl Architects

Client: Domus

Location: Iowa City, IA

Shoot Date: 
October 10, 2016 
Published Date: 
December 14, 2016 
The new Visual Arts facility for the University of Iowa's School of Art and Art History provides 126,000 sf of loft-like space for the departments of ceramics, sculpture, metals, photography, print making and 3D multimedia. It will also include graduate student studios, faculty and staff studios and offices, and gallery space.
The building replaces an original arts building from 1936, which was heavily damaged during a flood of the University of Iowa campus in June 2008. The new building will be located directly adjacent to and northwest of Art Building West, which Steven Holl Architects completed in 2006.
While the 2006 Arts Building West is horizontally porous and of planar composition, the new building will be vertically porous and volumetrically composed. The aim of maximum interaction between all departments of the school takes shape in social circulation spaces. (Steven Holl Architects) 
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