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Follow on Google News | McCarthy Awarded the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Campus Expansion ProjectBy: McCarthy Building Companies The redevelopment of the 14-acre campus consists of a new exhibition building, an art school, a parking garage with two levels below grade, a rooftop garden, architecturally significant tunnel connectors, extensive site development and a central plant. “The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will be the first new construction of a fine arts museum in McCarthy history, and our team is excited to get started,” said McCarthy Houston Division President Jim Stevenson. “It is an honor to work on a project of such magnitude that means a great deal to the city of Houston. It is our goal to build a state-of-the- McCarthy will be partnering with program manager The Projects Group along with architects Steven Holl and Kendall Heaton to construct the new 164,000-square- McCarthy has a long-standing history of building complex, architecturally significant projects in the entertainment and arts industry. In addition to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, McCarthy’s Texas portfolio of entertainment and institutional projects includes the award-winning AT&T Performing Arts Center Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre in Dallas, Dallas’ Klyde Warren Park located over Woodall Rogers Freeway and the Dallas City Performance Hall, among others. About McCarthy Celebrating 36 years of building in Texas (http://www.mccarthy.com/ About the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Tracing its origins to 1900, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is one of the largest cultural institutions in the country. Its main campus is located in the heart of Houston’s Museum District and comprises the Audrey Jones Beck Building, the Caroline Wiess Law Building, the Glassell School of Art, and the Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden. The Beck and Law buildings are connected underground by the Wilson Tunnel, which features James Turrell’s iconic installation The Light Inside. Additional resources include a repertory cinema, two significant libraries, and public archives. Nearby, two house museums—Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, and Rienzi—present collections of American and European decorative arts. The encyclopedic collections of the MFAH are especially strong in Pre-Columbian and African gold; Renaissance and Baroque painting and sculpture; 19th- and 20th-century art; photography; End
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