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Buddy Holly Center

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  • Details of roof shingles.
  • Large concrete ramp leading down to lower part of a building.
  • Steps leading to covered deck pathway alongside a building.
  • Steps leading down to patio seating area.
  • Art gallery space within museum.
  • Large patio seating area outside building.

Project Details

The City of Lubbock commissioned the Buddy Holly Center and gallery space for the Contemporary Arts Museum and provided the South Plains Depot, a 1928 Spanish Revival train station, to house a portion of the project. The program included the renovation of the historic depot for the museum and an addition of a new gallery wing to house the City’s Buddy Holly memorabilia collection. The design for the addition complements the existing structure without resorting to mimicry; Buddy Holly’s Stratocaster inspires the new ornamentation surrounding the gallery and alludes to the paired ornamentation of the original depot. At the entry, a new wooden platform with a butterfly canopy is reminiscent of the original freight platform canopy. The work was completed in full compliance with the Secretary of Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation within a restricted budget of about 100 dollars per square foot excluding museum lighting.

 

Recognition

  • AIA Lubbock, Citation Award, 2002

Publication

  • Lubbock Avalanche Journal, Gala, Sep 1999
  • Texas Architect, Lubbock Opens the Buddy Holly Center, Jan 2000
  • Public Radio, The Shape of Texas, 2001

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