{"id":9488,"date":"2012-03-01T11:55:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T18:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=9488"},"modified":"2021-07-28T08:51:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T14:51:00","slug":"tracy-aviary-and-our-architecture-design-section","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/tracy-aviary-and-our-architecture-design-section\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracy Aviary and Our Architecture & Design Section"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A gracious goose greets visitors to the gift shop below at Tracy Aviary\u2019s new Visitors Center. Photo by Nathan Webster.<\/p><\/div>\n

by Ann Poore
\nArchitecture & Design Editor<\/p>\n

As I started to look around for subjects that could be included in 15 Bytes\u2019 new series of articles on Architecture & Design, the makeover at Tracy Aviary was near the top of my list. There was the Sugar House Hole, but that was being filled. And City Creek is next month, with Robert Bliss weighing in, that\u2019ll be a treat. And we hope others in the field will come forward with their Utah hits and misses, past and present, to share with our readers. But for our very first column a lot of synchronicities made the new Aviary Visitors Center the only choice.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been nearly a year since Liberty Park reopened after that nasty 2010 oil spill. And the image of that incredible mess and sea of orange vests has been nearly wiped clean for me by the stunning new makeover recently completed by Big D Construction and ajc Architects at the Aviary. I mean, I\u2019ve already been back twice since we shot the photographs and I think I\u2019ll buy a membership. I even fed the sun conures \u2013 they perch on your arm and share a piece of apple right out of your hand. It costs 3 bucks but it\u2019s magical. And the lead architect on the intriguing new Visitors Center, Nathan Webster, is one of the people who bring us PechaKucha Night that I happened to write about here just last month. So I hit him up for a column.<\/p>\n

Look for it in the March edition of 15 Bytes, out next week. In the meantime, here are a couple of snaps taken at the Aviary. And if you have any article ideas for our new section, email me at annpoore@comcast.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The new Tracy Aviary as seen from the Liberty Park concession area. Photo by Tristan Shepherd.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tracy Aviary sign after a recent snow storm. Photo by Paul Svendsen.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ann Poore gives us a taste of what to expect in our upcoming articles on Architecture & Design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":844,"featured_media":9491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[803,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture-design","category-daily-bytes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/tracyaviary.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 06:33:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9488"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59248,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9488\/revisions\/59248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}