When Hurricane Irma slammed into Naples, Florida, in September 2017, the city’s performing and visual arts center, Artis—Naples, had just finalized an ambitious scheme to revamp its 8.5-acre campus. Now, 15 months after the destructive storm, the organization is moving forward with those plans, but not in the order originally envisioned.
The first project of the multi-phase, $150-million master plan now entails expanding the complex’s art museum and reskinning it. “We might not have started with the Baker Museum since it is the youngest of our facilities,” says Kathleen van Bergen, CEO. “But nature intervened,” adds Michael Manfredi, who, along with Marion Weiss, founded Weiss/Manfredi, the architecture firm that is reimagining Artis—Naples’ home. The building, constructed in 2000, suffered from water intrusion through its stucco facade during Irma and has been closed since.
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