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Art Center College of Design
South Campus
Pasadena, California

 

93,400 square feet
1 to 2 stories, 6 buildings
1940s Douglas Aircraft testing facility
adaptive reuse

The Dacor Building South Campus is a complex of 6 buildings ranging from of 1 to 2-story structures. Originally built in the 1940s as McDonald Douglas Aircraft’s wind tunnel testing facility, it will become the home of Art Center's Public Education Programs to include an Exhibition Hall, the Graduate Fine Arts Program, Art Center Print Shop and Archetype Press. The Alexander and Adelaide Hixon Courtyard will provide a unique creative entrance to exhibit outdoor sculpture and other fine art for the complex. The college's Exhibition Hall is the centerpiece of the South Raymond facility. The 14,600 square foot space will be a new art and design destination in the region. The Graduate Fine Art Complex is a 13,500 square foot comprised of studios, galleries, project rooms, computers, shops, archive space, and offices. Completing the space is a 3,000 square foot Art Center Print Shop and Archetype Press, a traditional letterpress facility for Art Center degree and Public Education students that was established in 1989 with the foundry type collection of Los Angeles Typographer and printer, Vernon Simpson.

 

 


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