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The High Museum of Art (colloquially the High) is the largest museum for visual art in the Southeastern United States. Located in Atlanta, Georgia (on Peachtree Street in Midtown, the city's arts district ), the High is 312,000 square feet (28,985 m 2) and a division of the Woodruff Arts Center. [ 2 ] The High organizes and presents exhibitions ...
The building was designed by Atlanta architect, Joe Amisano. [3] It was renamed the Woodruff Arts Center in 1982 to honor its greatest benefactor, Robert W. Woodruff. The art center also included the Atlanta College of Art, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the High Museum of Art. All three entities were combined into one corporation.
Richard Meier (born October 12, 1934) is an American abstract artist and architect, whose geometric designs make prominent use of the color white. [1] A winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1984, Meier has designed several iconic buildings including the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and San Jose City Hall.
Victorian architecture in Inman Park High Museum of Art (1983), designed by Richard Meier. Most of Atlanta was burned during the Civil War, depleting the city of a large stock of its historic architecture.
John Calvin Portman Jr. (December 4, 1924 – December 29, 2017) was an American neofuturistic architect and real estate developer widely known for popularizing hotels and office buildings with multi-storied interior atria. Portman also had a particularly large impact on the cityscape of his hometown of Atlanta, with the Peachtree Center ...
The Healey Building, at 57 Forsyth Street NW, in the Fairlie-Poplar district of Atlanta, was the last major skyscraper built in that city during the pre- World War I construction boom. Designed by the firm of Morgan & Dillon, with assistance from Walter T. Downing, in the Gothic Revival style, the 16-story structure was built between 1913-1914.
Arts Center station (MARTA) / 33.789705; -84.387789. Arts Center station is a train station in Atlanta, Georgia, serving the Red and Gold lines of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) rail system. It is the northernmost of three MARTA stations that serve Midtown Atlanta, the others being Midtown and North Avenue.
The center ultimately selected a design by Architect Philip Freelon [3] for a 90,000-square-foot (8,400 m 2) [4] museum that would break ground in 2010 and open in 2012. [5] The 2.5-acre (1.0 ha) site for the museum, at Pemberton Place , was donated by the Coca-Cola Company and is located adjacent to three popular tourist attractions; the ...