DETAILS UNVEILED FOR ANNABELLE SELLDORF’S REDESIGN OF THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO

Architect Annabelle Selldorf’s firm has unveiled preliminary renderings for its redesign of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s nearly three-acre La Jolla site, reports UT San Diego’s James Chute.

Selldorf plans on tripling the amount of exhibition space to around 30,000 square feet, allowing the museum to display its collection permanently for the first time. The complex will also open outward more, with Sherwood Auditorium reconfigured as the museum’s central gallery, and augmented with lighting, terraces, and promenades.

In fact, the museum still needs to raise $50 million funds to complete the project, plus an additional $20 million for an operating endowment. If all goes well, construction will begin in 2017.