Thanks to a $300 million gift by philanthropist Richard Hedreen, Seattle University (SU) will soon boast a new art museum to complement its new art school, the Cornish College of the Arts. The future Seattle Museum of Art will be located near the campus's main entrance within a new building designed by Olson Kundig.

Renderings show the future museum occupying a prominent corner site clad in wooden slats. Both stories are expressed with different material elements; the ground floor has ample open space and the second floor is regulated by fins, which help control interior natural light. Its flexible gallery spaces will accommodate performance art, music, and select theater productions.