Wood From Old Train Tracks Will Help Reshape Kimball Art Center in Utah February 14, 2012, 8:27 am The Kimball Art Center in Park City, Utah, has selected the architecture firm BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group to design its renovation and expansion, the center announced. The project includes an interior renovation of the existing art center and the construction of a new building adjacent to the original. The project is to begin in mid-2013 and is scheduled to be completed in mid-2015. The new center proposed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group will comprise massive stacked timber elements reclaimed from train track piles from the Great Salt Lake. They will enclose a spiral staircase, exhibition spaces and a restaurant, topped by a terrace. The historic Kimball Art Center building is to become an educational hub with a rooftop sculpture garden. The other finalists in the competition included Brooks + Scarpa Architects of Los Angeles, Sparano + Mooney Architecture of Salt Lake City, Will Bruder + Partners Ltd. of Phoenix and Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects of New York.