Post-Toyo Ito, Berkeley Art Museum Pressing Forward with Relocation Plans

At last we left it, following their announcement that they couldn’t afford the flashy new building Toyo Ito had designed for them, the Berkeley Art Museum said they were still planning to make a big move, instead heading to a former printing plant, which they were going to have fully restored. The momentum seems to be continuing along that path, at the San Francisco Chronicle‘s resident critic, John King, reports that the museum has drawn up a shortlist of 10 architecture firms to help them rebuild their new old home.