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UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) have announced plans about the opening of a new building in California, designed by US-based studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

The upgraded structure will offer improved spaces for exhibitions, film screenings, and public access to BAM/PFA collections. It is expected to be open from 31 Jan in 2016.

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The new building will integrate the former UC Berkeley printing plant building, with 48,000ft2 of floor space and a new 35,000ft² structure.

The integrated development will have 25,000ft² of gallery space along with two film theaters, one performance forum, a cafe, four study centres for art and film, a reading room, an art-making lab, and multiple gathering areas.

"[It] creates a dramatic public spine that begins as a cantilevered cafe marking the building’s entrance, and culminates in an indoor theatre."

Diller Scofidio + Renfro partner Charles Renfro said: "The supple body of the new structure, draped between the original 1930s orthogonal buildings and snagged on their sharp corners, creates a dramatic public spine that begins as a cantilevered cafe marking the building’s entrance, and culminates in an indoor theater on the other end of the site."

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BAM/PFA will have an inaugural exhibition titled ‘Architecture of Life’, and will present architecture to express life experience as concept, metaphor and practice.

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The upgrade project is worth $112m and will emphasise BAM/PFA’s role as the visual arts center of the campus, as well as being a global destination for all art and film lovers.

Image:Rendering of the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA). Photo: courtesy of the UC Regents.