no toyo ito for BAMPFA
The Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive won’t be getting this:
Kenneth Baker in the Chronicle:
Museum Director Lawrence Rinder explained the decision to change course - taken by the chancellor, the museum’s board president, its chairman and Rinder himself - as a consequence of the global economic downturn over the past two years.
“It is ultimately the chancellor’s decision,” Rinder said, “but I agree with his analysis. … We had set some interim fundraising benchmarks to have a standard by which to judge our success. … The trigger point was in November, this month. By then we had brought in about $81 million toward our $200 million capital campaign. … The gap was just too great, looking forward.” The $200 million included anticipated cost overruns.