Arts
Owner: Museum of Glass
Client/Architect: Arthur Erickson / Nick Milkovich Architects
Completion: 2002
This 75,000-sf glass art museum, inspired by the works of artist Dale Chihuly, encompasses four stories of glass walls and a concrete structure counterbalanced by a 90-foot steel cone housing hot shop furnaces for glass blowing and sculpting demonstrations. The distinctive, tilted cone containing the emissions stack punctuates the skyline and has become a shimmering icon for Tacoma's transformation from an industrial area to a cultural center. One of the primary challenges was to design environmental systems capable of handling an industrial glass blowing shop in a public viewing arena, while at the same time, meet environmentally sensitive requirements for the museum where air quality, temperature and humidity needed to be tightly controlled.
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NEWS: Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce, Museum of Glass Special Section, June 6, 2002.
Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce, Museum of Glass Special Section, November 18, 1999.
