22 years later its building, designed by Richard Meier with the curves of a grand piano and a skin of white-enamel squares, would end up on a U.S. postage stamp in the series Masterworks of Modern American Architecture, alongside the Chrysler Building and Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum.
The firm Renzo Piano Building Workshop and local architects Lord,
Aeck & Sargent created a master plan for the entire 18.25-acre campus
of the Woodruff Arts Center, comprising the High, the Symphony Orchestra,
the Atlanta College of Art, and three performing arts groups. Behind the existing
museum and the Memorial Arts Building, a 1968 Brutalist concrete hulk housing the
center's concert halls, the architects added two new gallery buildings (the John F.
and Susan W. Wieland Pavilion and the Anne Cox Chambers Wing); an administrative
building; and a restaurant and tapas bar that opens onto the main plaza. Delicate glass
bridges join the upper levels of the three gallery wings, while narrow pedestrian walkways,
covered with glass canopies, link the structures on the ground. "It's a fundamentally urban
composition, with a piazza as its centerpiece," says Piano, who rejects the word campus to
describe his plan.
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