Byline: STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press
If all goes as planned, sometime next spring this city which nicknamed itself the ``Hub'' of all things cultural will break ground on its first new art museum in a century.
The Institute of Contemporary Art -- long a funky outpost in Boston's small, staid constellation of art museums -- is scheduled to throw open the doors of a sparkling new, four-story museum on the city's waterfront in 2006, heralding what it hopes is a new era of support for cutting-edge arts.
The 62,000-square-foot building is designed to triple the space of the museum's current lodgings. It will include:
A 300-seat theater, whose glass walls can be adjusted for light -- from opaque to translucent to transparent revealing harbor views -- to meet particular performance needs; an open grandstand facing the water; and an 18,000-square-foot gallery, clad in translucent glass planks and illuminated at night, that cantilevers out over a public walkway along the waterfront.
A 165-square-foot glass elevator with views of the water will shuttle …
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