CEDAR RAPIDS —
The Art Library website perhaps best expresses the collective feeling of University of Iowa School of Art and Art History faculty, staff and students who are moving back into Art Building West for the spring semester, more than three years after it was knocked out of commission by the 2008 flood.
"Yippee!" the library site declares about the move back into the Steven Holl-designed building on Riverside Drive.
"Which is basically the whole feeling," Art Librarian Rijn Templeton said while tidying her Art West office. "We figured we'd have a little fun during the move."
Numerous UI facilities reopened in the months immediately following the June 2008 flood when building repairs could be made in shorter time, including Mayflower Residence Hall, the Adler Journalism and Mass Communication Building and the English-Philosophy Building.
But the reopening of Art West for spring semester marks completion of the first major campus building that was "really put out of commission" by the flood, Senior Vice President for Finance Doug True said. Movers recently stacked boxes in faculty offices and lined books on the Art Library shelves. The building will hold classes this spring semester, starting Jan. 17, for the first time since the flood.
Final cost of the Art West repair came to $14.2 million, under the $14.8 million estimate due to lower construction bids, True said.
Much of that cost covered the "invisible" flood wall. The removable, 900-foot flood wall around the building is designed to be built in two to three days but can go up quicker and is based on concepts used in many European cities, True said. UI officials expect to use similar invisible flood walls to protect the Iowa Memorial Union and Iowa Advanced Technology Labs on the other side of the Iowa River.
Total damage, recovery and mitigation costs at the UI from the flood could hit almost $1 billion.
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January 9, 2012
University of Iowa ready to reopen Art Building West
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