DILLER SCOFIDIO + RENFRO CHOSEN TO RENOVATE COOPER-HEWITT NATIONAL DESIGN MUSEUM

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum has selected architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro to design the gallery and visitor experience at the remodeled building on the Upper East Side. The renovations of the museum’s Carnegie Mansion are being paid for by a $64-million capital campaign. Caroline Baumann, associate director of the museum, told the New York Times, “This project gives Cooper-Hewitt the opportunity to reinvent itself, to rethink museum conventions and the entire museum ‘visit.’ We’re delighted to be working with DS+R and Local Projects in creating a distinctly contemporary vision that will serve as a model for a new type of museum.”