DAVID CHIPPERFIELD CHOSEN TO REDESIGN MET’S MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART WING

The Met has more exciting news: Yesterday the museum announced that Daniel H. Weiss has been named its new president. (More details on Weiss’s appointment can be found here.) And now, Thomas P. Campbell, director and CEO of the museum, has revealed that David Chipperfield Architects will be developing a new design for the museum’s southwest wing, which houses modern and contemporary art.

Chipperfield’s firm will also potentially redesign adjacent galleries, for the arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, as well as additional operational spaces.

As Campbell said: “The project will run concurrent with the Met’s installations in the Marcel Breuer-designed building that formerly housed the Whitney, allowing us to regenerate our permanent spaces in the Met’s main building while maintaining a vibrant program for modern and contemporary art just blocks away.”

The project led by Chipperfield will increase gallery space for the collection, double the roof garden’s size, and create on-site storage.

Chipperfield—who’s created the Nobel Center in Stockholm; a new building for the Kunsthaus Zurich in Switzerland; the restoration of the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin—weighed in: “During the competition we developed an understanding and fondness for this amazing institution and we look forward to working with Tom Campbell and his colleagues on the development of the design.”