Tuesday, June 12, 2012
News New Center for Civil and Human Rights design unveiled
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:52 AM
- National Center for Civil and Human Rights
- The attraction, which will house Martin Luther King Jr. Papers, will be built in phases. The first is shown above.
Once constructed, the three-floor building will house: the Martin Luther King Jr. Collection, more commonly known as the King Papers; the Without Sanctuary lynching exhibit; civil and human rights presentations by artist George C. Wolfe and human rights expert Jill Savitt; meeting and event spaces; and a broadcast studio capable of live production. Shipman says the new design created by Freelon/HOK will allow the center to be "100 percent self-sustaining from the day it opens." (The previous design, also by Freelon/HOK, would have relied on membership campaigns to cover 20 percent of the center's operations costs.) The first phase's $65 million budget is fully funded, the center says, and officials expect to open the centers doors in 2014. Shipman says fundraising for the center's second and third phases is ongoing.
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