Two Years After the Flood, University of Iowa Continues to Wait to Rebuild or Relocate Vacant Arts Buildings

This writer is a regular visitor to Iowa City, his former home and location of his beloved alma mater, and while it’s always a great time to go back, we’re always left in a bit of a slump whenever we happen to drive by Steven Holl‘s beautiful Art Building West for the University of Iowa, knowing that it’s just sitting there vacant. Just two years after it opened, the building was swallowed by water during the massive Iowa River flood of 2008.