Austin 360
The Blanton Museum of Art has revealed a dramatic plan to transform the grounds around its three buildings on the University of Texas campus at Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and North Congress Avenue.
What looks in renderings like a garden of 15 gigantic, perforated flowers was designed by the award-winning firm Snøhetta, whose New York-based leaders are Texans and is also based in Oslo, Norway.
As part of the projected $35 million project, Cuban American abstract painter Carmen Herrera will add a signature mural to what is becoming a grand southern gateway to the campus that directly faces the state Capitol and the major Capitol Complex expansion now underway along Congress.