In 1962, Atlanta suffered an unprecedented loss when an airplane, the Chateau de Sully, carrying the leaders of Atlanta’s arts and civic community crashed at the end of runway 8 attempting takeoff at Orly Airport.
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The Woodruff campus expanded in 1983 with the addition of the Richard Meier-designed High Museum of Art building.
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The art center also included the Atlanta College of Art, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the High Museum of Art.
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This new "village for the arts" was designed by another Pritzker Prize winner, Italian architect Renzo Piano.
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