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Photo courtesy of University of Nebraska Foundation.
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The International Quilt Study Center has released details of the design selected for its new $10.5 million home. Plans from the chosen firm of Robert A. M. Stern Architects reveal a three-story building faced with Anamosa limestone and a bowed facade "stitched together" with glass panels, "suggestive of the activity within. " The architects describe the interior of the 30,000 square-foot facility, to be located at 33rd and Holdrege Streets, as being quilt-like with three layers. The outer layers on the east and west sides, containing the public areas and office spaces, and a second layer of corridors and walkways will wrap the core of the building with its state-of-the-art climate controlled quilt storage areas and three interconnected exhibition galleries. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln expects to break ground for the new building in the spring of 2006 with the opening planned for the fall of 2007. Website www.quiltstudy.org.
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