The Museum of Modern Art reopens on 20 November after being closed for over two years. Its new galleries, designed by Yoshio Taniguchi, are a triumph: a brilliant justification of designing from the inside out.(News from New York)

From: Apollo | Date: November 1, 2004| Author: Nicholson, Louise | Copyright information

On 20 November, after two and a half years of closure, New York's Museum of Modern Art re-opens with three additional new buildings, all by Yoshio Taniguchi, on its 53rd Street site in Midtown Manhattan. Suffused in natural light, his new David and Peggy Rockefeller Building (Fig. 2) joins Philip L. Goodwin and Edward Durell Stone's original 1989 building, Philip Johnson's sculpture garden (1953), the East Wing, Garden Wing and galleries (all 1964), and Cesar Pelli's 1984 New Wing ...

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