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Brooklyn Children’s Museum Comes to Brooklyn Bridge Park



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In a move calculated to raise its profile among more New Yorkers and tourists, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum will open a spinoff in Brooklyn Bridge Park Saturday October 15th. The annex, called Spark, is the 117-year old Crown Heights institution’s first permanent presence outside its original location.

The 1,850-square-feet venue at 1 John Street is expected to host 50,000 visitors in its first year.

“We’re proud that some of Brooklyn’s most venerable cultural institutions now call the park home and look forward to welcoming visitors from across the borough and the city to Spark,” said Brooklyn Bridge Park President Regina Myer.

The development is not without controversy, however. There have been debates in the community about the benefits of the expansion.

Spark will offer indoor and outdoor learning and play spaces for children ages six months to six years. The first exhibit will be Brooklyn Block Lab, an early childhood block play workshop that’s been popular at the Crown Heights location. There will be daily classes, space for birthday parties, and free admission on Thursday afternoons. The outpost will partner with several nearby schools, including P.S. 307, a STEM elementary school in nearby Vinegar Hill that was recently rezoned.
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Studio Gang's American Museum of Natural History extension moves forward

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Old Posted Oct 19, 2016, 5:37 PM
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I think Gang is great and I love what she's going to do with the rear entrance of the Natural history museum, but I wish they could have chosen a New York firm. I'm thinking Steven Holl or Williams/Tsien. Both deserve more New York commissions
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MoMA reveals final design for $400M expansion



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The Museum of Modern Art revealed on Thursday its final design for its $400 million renovation project, which calls for more space and a chronological and thematic approach to its exhibitions. In addition to the expansion of gallery and public spaces, the museum plans to feature more work of minority and female artists. Architecture firms Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Gensler have collaborated on the design, and the overall expansion will provide 50,000 square feet of new gallery space. The renovation is expected to wrap in 2019.

The first phase of construction, which began in February 2016, was completed this week. This phase focused on the east section of MoMA which reworked 15,000 square feet to create two galleries on the third floor and a new first-floor lounge facing the sculpture garden. The east side’s historic Bauhaus staircase was extended to the ground floor level, allowing access to the galleries on the second floor.
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9/11 Tribute Museum expands space for personal stories

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A museum that tells the stories of the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks will reopen Tuesday in a new space, a little farther from the World Trade Center memorial but with triple the exhibition space of the temporary quarters it occupied for a decade.

The 9/11 Tribute Museum was originally founded in 2006 as a temporary shrine to the victims in the years that the larger, better known National September 11 Memorial and Museum was under construction and even after it opened in 2011.

The Tribute Museum offered daily guided tours of the rebuilt World Trade Center site led by people with close personal connections to the tragedy, including attack survivors, first responders, recovery workers and relatives of the dead.

More than 4 million people have visited the museum, originally called the Tribute Center and co-founded by CEO Jennifer Adams-Webb and the September 11th Families' Association, causing it to outgrow its original home in a space formerly occupied by a delicatessen.

The new space, a few blocks away, is 36,000 square-feet, about half of which is exhibition space. It is located on the ground and second floors of a high-rise building.

"Originally, when we started, we weren't sure where we were going," said Lee Ielpi, whose firefighter son, Jonathan, died in the attacks. "We realized, as the years went on, that we are making an impact."

Artifacts on display at the museum include "missing persons" posters that were hung throughout the city in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, when families still held hope that their loved ones would be found alive. Other items on display include a death certificate, a boarding pass for someone who was on one of the flights, and a section of window from one of the hijacked planes.
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Full Steam Ahead for Expansion of Museum of Natural History’s Gilder Center, Upper West Side



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Permits for the expansion of the American Museum of Natural History Museum were filed with the Department of Buildings last week by Davis Brody Bond Architects, signaling the go-ahead for work to be done on one of the Upper West Side’s most recognizable buildings.

The NYC Landmark Preservation Commission has approved the expansion’s contemporary design which is expected to rise 540,000 square feet, including six floors.

Construction to expand the museum’s Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation, located at 200 Central Park West, between West 77th and West 81st Streets is expected to start soon. However, there has been no official completion date announced.
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American Museum Of Natural History’s Gilder Center Expansion Ready To Move Forward, Upper West Side



The proposed Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation at the American Museum of Natural History. Rendering by Studio Gang Architects

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Back in October of 2016, YIMBY reported on the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s approval of plans for the American Museum of Natural History’s expansion, which has been dubbed the Gilder Center. Now, permits for the project have been filed with the Department of Buildings, indicating that work is about to begin on the contemporarily-minded addition to one of New York City’s most iconic institutions.

The address on the filing is 200 Central Park West, and the Museum sits between West 77th and West 81st Streets, on the Upper West Side. The addition will be located on the western side of the Museum, taking up space that was intended to hold parts of the original masterplan, which was not completed.

Jeanne Gang is behind the design, which will certainly contrast against the existing architectural language of the site. While the LPC is busy finagling details on mega-mansions and townhouse expansions, it seems slightly uncharacteristic for something so jarringly dissimilar to the site’s original intended design to gain approval, but New York City’s landmarks approval process is not exactly known for its logic or common sense...
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American Museum of Natural History’s original plan, RIP
Horrible loss. That building would have been up there with the best in the city if it had been completed as planned. What a shame.
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First look at Little Italy’s revamped Italian American Museum







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The museum will have a separate entrance on Mulberry Street, and will open into a central atrium with a 20-foot-tall ceiling, the architect on the project, Jonathan Scelsa, of the architecture firm op.AL, explained in an email. The lower levels of the museum will get natural light in the form of a central skylight on the ground floor. A museum gift shop will also be located on this floor.

The building that houses the museum was once the home of the Banca Stabile, a financial services institution that started serving the Italian-American community in the late 19th century. The museum now plans to incorporate artifacts from this bank into a lower level gallery.

The Italian American Museum was founded in 2001, and the hope is that this expansion will anchor the space permanently in Little Italy, and also be a place to celebrate the legacy of Italians in America.

Construction on the building is scheduled to wrap sometime in 2019. The museum will remain closed for the duration of construction. Once the new space opens, the museum’s facade will be illuminated at night.
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That design doesn't remind me of Italy at all. Including contemporary Italian design.
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The Frick Collection Taps New Architects For Expansion On The Upper East Side Expansion



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The Frick Collection will again present expansion proposals to the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) in a hearing scheduled for Tuesday, May 29. Following widespread public outcry and eventual LPC disapproval in 2014, the new plans increase the building’s aboveground area by about 10 percent, relocate a portion of the collection below ground, create a new auditorium and visual entertainment areas, and increase accessibility for people in wheelchairs and mobility-impaired visitors.

Starchitect Annabelle Selldorf will oversee design of the expansion in collaboration with architects of record, Beyer Blinder Belle.

Though feedback for this round of proposals remains mostly positive, opponents have voiced concerns regarding changes to the Russell Page Garden.

While the 4,100-square-foot garden will not be eliminated as planned in previous iterations of the expansion, foliage on the northern boundary of the garden would be tapered to promote greater visibility from vertically extended structures to surround central green space.

The LPC hearing is open to the public beginning at 9:30AM on May 29.
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FXCollaborative Reveals Updated Proposals For Children’s Museum Of Manhattan On The Upper West Side



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Proposals from FXCollaborative reveal scaled-back plans to renovate and repurpose a landmarked church on Manhattan’s Upper West Side into a new museum. During the public meeting on Tuesday, June 9, the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) unanimously approved the revised plans for the historic property at 361 Central Park West to serve as the home of The Children’s Museum of Manhattan.

The renovation project is framed by three distinct goals: to transform and adapt the building into a richly curated museum, to establish new entryways that are both respectful to the historic architecture and more accommodating to the mobility impaired, and the implementation of sustainable building technologies.


Beginning with the entryways, the architects intend to install a series of enlarged wood-encased doors and newly proposed glass transforms with decorative wood screens. The enlarged openings would incorporate salvaged stone materials removed from other locations of the building as required to complete the renovation.

The design team has also reduced the size of proposed museum banners along Central Park West and 96th Street.

All stained glass windows will receive new bronze frames, mullions, and muntins. The ornate stained glass borders will be repaired and restored along each elevation.

To help promote the flow of natural light into the building, the centers of the stained glass windows, all of which primarily comprise religious iconography, will be replaced with clear, avian-safe glass. This includes the large stained glass window above Central Park West, the arched stained glass windows and smaller rectangular windows along 96th street, additional arched windows facing a residential building to the north of the property, and a partially obscured window at the west or rear elevation of the building.

All removed bronze frames and opalescent glass will be donated to the National Building Arts Center.

The new elevation diagrams also reveal a significant reduction in the massing and visibility of public areas at the roof of the structure. This includes a redesigned elevator bulkhead and the removal of a formerly proposed south terrace. Instead, the project team will restore the structure’s terra cotta roof and install solar panels to improve energy performance.

Overall, the structure has been lowered more than 15 feet compared to former proposals.
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Exterior Work Continues On American Natural History Museum’s Expansion On Manhattan’s Upper West Side



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Exterior work is continuing to progress on The Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation, a 230,000-square-foot addition to the American Museum of Natural History at 415 Columbus Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Designed by Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang with Tishman Construction Company of New York as the general contractor, the amorphous reinforced concrete superstructure is being built by the intersection of Columbus Avenue and West 79th Street. The project is projected to cost around $383 million and the museum is aiming for LEED Gold certification.

At the time of our last update in September, the addition had recently topped out and much of the interior remained exposed between the floor plates. Since then, most of the walls have been formed in preparation for the final paneling system’s installation.
The larger southern half of the museum expansion topped out first, while the roof parapet of the northern counterpart is not too far behind and is waiting for its tied steel rebar to be covered in imminent concrete pours. Some of the organic-shaped trapezoidal windows have their mullions and frames in place up against the sloping walls of the edifice, while the central atrium, which will have the largest surface of glass, is still largely populated with metal scaffolding and white plastic tarps. The array of rectangular metal plates will eventually hold up the light gray paneling system, as depicted in renderings.
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Demolition Underway For New Museum Expansion At 231 Bowery On Manhattan’s Lower East Side






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Demolition work is underway for the New Museum‘s eight-story expansion at 235 Bowery on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Designed by Rem Koolhaas and Shohei Shigematsu of OMA and Cooper Robertson & Partners, the 174-foot-tall annex will rise directly to the south of the SANAA-designed main building from 2007 and nearly double the institution’s footprint to 115,277 square feet. The sleek, angular volume will connect laterally to the original museum and house three gallery floors, a cafe, a bookstore, offices, community and educational program space, art storage, and outdoor terraces. Sciame Construction is the general contractor for the property, which is located at the intersection of Bowery and Spring Street.

Recent photos show the low-rise structure at 231 Bowery covered in scaffolding and black netting as demolition work proceeds on the upper floors. The entire structure could likely be razed before the end of the year, given its diminutive size.

Demolition is being carried out by Russo Development Enterprises and is scheduled to be finished in December, as noted on the on-site construction board. The New Museum expansion will be completed in 2024.
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American LGBTQ+ Museum coming to N.Y.C.’s oldest museum as part of expansion

The new museum, slated to open in 2024, will be dedicated to global, national and local LGBTQ history and culture.

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Wonder and Awe in Natural History’s New Wing

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Wonder and Awe in Natural History’s New Wing......Gilder is spectacular: a poetic, joyful, theatrical work of public architecture and a highly sophisticated flight of sculptural fantasy. New Yorkers live to grouse about new buildings. This one seems destined to be an instant heartthrob and colossal attraction....

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I must say the wing turned out very nice inside and out.
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