The Workplace for Metropolitan Structure (OMA) has been chosen to design a 60,000 sq ft extension to a up to date artwork gallery in Manhattan.
The New Museum was designed by Japanese architect SANAA for a website within the Bowery. The extension will double its area and add three lifts, an entrance plaza and artist residency areas.
The seven-storey undertaking may have a definite façade produced from glass and metallic mesh and can align with the prevailing constructing on the second, third and fourth flooring. There may also be a bigger entrance foyer full with restaurant, and an open-air public artwork venue.
Three upper-floor terraces overlooking the Bowery will likely be created and the seventh-floor sky room will likely be expanded.
Shohei Shigematsu, a accomplice in OMA, mentioned: “The New Museum is an incubator for cultural views and manufacturing, and the growth goals to embody that perspective of openness.
“Imagined as a extremely related but distinct counterpart to the prevailing museum’s verticality and solidity, the brand new constructing will provide horizontally expansive galleries for curatorial selection, open vertical circulation, and a range of areas for gathering, change and creation.”
The New Museum has raised $118m for the $125m undertaking, of which $82m will go in the direction of building prices.
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