This is today's update from Traditional Architecture listserv from architects who have contacts on site.
I am told by a friend with Glaswegian connections that a fair amount of furniture from the library was saved, and several examples of carved decor and other craftwork were hacked off and saved as exempla for rebuilding. No word on the archival materials.
Several of the best water colors have been on loan and may not have been in the building. Digitization of small works was being done on premises. Larger works were being digitized elsewhere, but no word on what was where.
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Was the fure caused by art students' use of "innovative" materials?
- Students have said that fire started in basement when projector exploded, and ignited an artist's expanding foam
Audun Engh
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A good selection of post-fire damage. Look about halfway down - you can see the roof over the library is gone. I can’t imagine it survived.
Gregory Walker
AIA, LEED AP
HOUSER WALKER ARCHITECTURE
Lucy Minogue Rowland, MS, MLS
Professor Emerita
Director, Louis T. Griffith Library
Georgia Museum of Art
90 Carlton Street
Athens, GA 30602
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