Tadao Ando to Design Another Building at the Clark

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute has selected Pritzker-Prize-win ning architect Tadao Ando to design a second building on its South Street campus.

The new gallery and conservation center, the important first step in the Clark's overall expansion announced in 2003, will be located on the wooded hillside along Old Stone Hill Road on the Clark's campus, about 1,000 feet south of its existing buildings.

The 32,000 square-foot wood building will house new galleries, an art studio classroom, an outdoor café, and the Williamstown Art Conservation Center (WACC).

A shelter for hikers and skiers who use the nearby trails is also planned.

Designs for the facility at Stone Hill, estimated at about $20 million, will be unveiled in the fall.

The Clark will break ground between fall 2005 and spring 2006, and open the building in the summer of 2007.

The site and architect selection were officially approved by the Clark's trustees at their March 2005 meeting.

Reed Hilderbrand Associates of Watertown, Massachusetts, the firm working with Ando on the campus enhancement, will also be landscape architects for the Stone Hill facility.

"We are delighted that Mr. Ando will design the first phase of our expansion," said Michael Conforti, director of the Clark.

"We will now begin to realize the master