Managing fire risk at the Getty
December 13 2017
Picture: NYT
The New York Times looks at how close the devastating wildfires came to the Getty Museum (answer; very) and how the museum was designed to manage such risks:
The Getty’s architect, Richard Meier, built fire resistance into the billion-dollar complex, said Ron Hartwig, vice president of communications for the J. Paul Getty Trust. These hills are fire prone, but because of features like the 1.2 million square feet of thick travertine stone covering the outside walls, the crushed rock on the roofs and even the plants chosen for the brush-cleared grounds, “The safest place for the artwork to be is right here in the Getty Center,” he said.
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