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MoMA transforms its renovation plans which will make the building more transparent

United States Architecture News - Feb 01, 2016 - 21:13   3731 views

MoMA transforms its renovation plans which will make the building more transparent

The former home of the American Folk Art Museum, left, which was demolished in 2014. Credit Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times.

Gone is the “Art Bay,” with a glass garage-like door that would have allowed visitors to enter galleries straight from the street. Gone, too, is the fourth-floor “Gray Box,” with acoustic absorption panels through which passers-by could have peered up at performance art in progress. And there will be no new public entrance to the sculpture garden on 54th Street.....Continue Reading

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