Brooklyn Museum
(in association with Arata Isozaki & Associates)
Master Plan: 1,027,000 square feet (1986)
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium: 460 seats (1991)
Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing: 35,000 square feet (1992)
Beaux Arts Court: 22,500 square feet (2000)
Brooklyn, New York

Responding to the urban design imperative of the Museum's asymmetrical site, the competition-winning design for its expansion arranges new galleries, auditorium, education wing and restaurant around a plaza and reinterprets the fundamental geometries of the Beaux-Arts landmark. Completed as part of the first phase of the renovation of the historic building are: a new 460-seat, 10,000 square foot auditorium, which occupies a previously vacant concrete shell within the Museum's expansion wing, the West Wing Galleries, and state-of-the-art collections storage. Work on the twenty-five year master plan is ongoing.

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