SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art is saying a bittersweet goodbye as it prepares to demolish the building that has served as its gallery since 1979.
The museum sits next to some of the most iconic buildings in downtown Salt Lake — Abravanel Hall, the Salt Lake Temple, the Salt Palace — so why don’t more people know where it is? Laura Allred Hurtado, the museum’s executive director, says it’s because the building is practically invisible.
“Our current space was really drawing on architectural philosophies that were important in the 1970’s, like a sunken plaza or sinking the museum into the ground … the net effect is that it really made the building invisible,” she said…