The Corning Museum of Glass’s new Contemporary Art + Design Wing, designed by Thomas Phifer and Partners.Photography:Courtesy Of The Corning Museum Of Glass/Photography © Iwan Baan

The Corning Museum of Glass’s new Contemporary Art + Design Wing, designed by Thomas Phifer and Partners, is a unifying structure of minimalist sensibility.

In over 140 years of making glass, from chimney globes for kerosene lamps to Gorilla Glass for smartphones, Corning Inc. has also established a reputation for commissioning first-rate works of architecture at its home base in this small city in the Finger Lakes region of New York.The building spree kicked off in 1951 with the International style Corning Glass Center by Wallace K. Harrison, better known for his work at Rockefeller Center, the United Nations, and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. 

Renamed the Corning Museum of Glass, there followed an organically curvaceous addition from 1976 by Gunnar Birkerts, a protégé of Eero Saarinen and Minoru Yamasaki. Then came an expansion and renovation in 2001 by Smith-Miller + Hawkinson with a new library by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, famous for developing the glass cube prototype for Apple stores everywhere.......Continue Reading

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