{"id":2131,"date":"2012-01-31T15:26:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T15:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/dls\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2013-10-30T11:54:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T16:54:47","slug":"art-building-west-back-in-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2012\/01\/31\/art-building-west-back-in-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Building West back in business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/flood\/id\/2422\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2134\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/01\/abw4.jpg\" alt=\"Art Building West flooded, The University of Iowa, June 2008\" width=\"544\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/01\/abw4.jpg 803w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/01\/abw4-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The UI&#8217;s Art Building West, winner of a 2007 American Institute of Architects Honor Award, was open for less than two years when it sustained severe damage in the floods of 2008. With original construction costs of $21.5 million, the building recently completed its $14.2 million refurbishment and is finally back in business. Check out these images of ABW from the Iowa Digital Library before stopping by to see it in all its newly restored glory:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/ucmp\/id\/3270\" target=\"_blank\">Construction, 2005 | University Communication and Marketing Photographs<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm4\/results.php?CISOOP1=exact&amp;CISOFIELD1=corpor&amp;CISOROOT=\/flood&amp;CISOBOX1=Art+Building+West+%28Iowa+City%2C+Iowa%29\" target=\"_blank\">Flood damage and repair, 2008 | Iowa City Flood<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/ucmp\/id\/3232\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2132\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/01\/abw1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/01\/abw1.jpg 744w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/01\/abw1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/flood\/id\/787\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2135\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/01\/abw3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/01\/abw3.jpg 799w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/01\/abw3-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/flood\/id\/1784\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2133\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/01\/abw5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/01\/abw5.jpg 799w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/01\/abw5-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UI&#8217;s Art Building West, winner of a 2007 American Institute of Architects Honor Award, was open for less than two years when it sustained severe damage in the floods of 2008. With original construction costs of $21.5 million, the building recently completed its $14.2 million refurbishment and is finally back in business. Check out<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2012\/01\/31\/art-building-west-back-in-business\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Art Building West back in business&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3831,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions\/3831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}