The Salt Lake Tribune
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Revamping Gallivan

Everybody's a critic - including members of the Salt Lake City Council (and the city's redevelopment agency board, which is the same thing), who got their first look at an architect's plan (shown above) to redesign the Gallivan Center downtown.

The makeover plan by EDA Architects would expand the amphitheater space for concerts, move the skating rink to the east (between the amphitheater stage and the Marriott Hotel), add a building with banquet facilities and bathrooms, and remove the birdcage the Tracy Aviary has there.

Looking over the plan, according to this story by the Tribune's Derek P. Jensen, city councilmembers couldn't resist playing art critic.

Carlton Christensen worried that the proposed building along 200 South would be "too cold" and uninviting to pedestrian traffic. And Luke Garrott questioned the decision to keep "Asteroid Landed Softly," Kazuo Matsubayashi's 15-year-old rock-on-a-pedestal sundial sculpture in the middle of the plaza, commenting that, "If it's not a joke, it's unintentional comedy."

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