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04-11-2013, 09:42 AM
For a few years while the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York was given (free) an unused city building in nearby queens while the new wing was built. This new building is now slated to be torn down...
“It’s very rare that a building that recent comes down, especially a building that was such a major design and that got so much publicity when it opened for its design — mostly very positive,” said Andrew S. Dolkart, the director of Columbia University’s historic preservation program. “The building is so solid looking on the street, and then it becomes a disposable artifact. It’s unusual and it’s tragic because it’s a notable work of 21st century architecture by noteworthy architects who haven’t done that much work in the city, and it’s a beautiful work with the look of a handcrafted facade.”
MoMA officials said the building’s design did not fit their plans because the opaque facade is not in keeping with the glass aesthetic of the rest of the museum. The former folk museum is also set back farther than MoMA’s other properties, and the floors would not line up.
After they opened this wing, the price of admission went up drastically. Now, because of aesthtics, they no longer find the wing usable. I'd seriously be thinking before I'd re-up as a member.
12-Year-Old Building at MoMA Is Doomed (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/11/arts/design/moma-to-raze-ex-american-folk-art-museum-building.html?adxnnl=1&ref=general&src=me&adxnnlx=1365690837-VukX/M2HIsquvpzJw1WnKg)
“It’s very rare that a building that recent comes down, especially a building that was such a major design and that got so much publicity when it opened for its design — mostly very positive,” said Andrew S. Dolkart, the director of Columbia University’s historic preservation program. “The building is so solid looking on the street, and then it becomes a disposable artifact. It’s unusual and it’s tragic because it’s a notable work of 21st century architecture by noteworthy architects who haven’t done that much work in the city, and it’s a beautiful work with the look of a handcrafted facade.”
MoMA officials said the building’s design did not fit their plans because the opaque facade is not in keeping with the glass aesthetic of the rest of the museum. The former folk museum is also set back farther than MoMA’s other properties, and the floors would not line up.
After they opened this wing, the price of admission went up drastically. Now, because of aesthtics, they no longer find the wing usable. I'd seriously be thinking before I'd re-up as a member.
12-Year-Old Building at MoMA Is Doomed (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/11/arts/design/moma-to-raze-ex-american-folk-art-museum-building.html?adxnnl=1&ref=general&src=me&adxnnlx=1365690837-VukX/M2HIsquvpzJw1WnKg)