News - Renzo Piano to Design Addition to Whitney Museum in New York
Posted by JoeVare, 27 Jun 2004

This week it was confirmed that Renzo Piano will be designing that addition that they've been talking about forever. They had previously worked with Rem Koolhaas but fired him when they realized how expensive his design was to build and maintain. Also if you can remember back a decade or so, Michael Graves had submitted three different expansion designs, making the major mistake of destroying the loved Marcel Breuer staircase in his first two schemes. Eventually those designs were abandoned because of strong community opposition. Renzo Piano should have it easier, most of the brownstones that Graves wanted to destroy have been landmarked so his design will have much less of a presence, at least from the outside.

This will be Renzo Piano's third project in Manhattan, he has designed an addition to the Morgan Library and demolition work is currently underway on the site where his New York Times tower will be built.

Learn more about Renzo Piano at ArBITAT Architects
Go to the Whitney Museum site