Required reading: With extensive new accommodation, above and below ground, Renzo Piano brings unity and order to the Morgan Library.(McKim, Mead & White)
From: The Architectural Review
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Date: 6/1/2006
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Author: Webb, Michael
J. Pierpont Morgan was a ruthless financial wizard with superb taste, whose monument--the library designed by McKim, Mead & White in 1906--was a surprisingly restrained product of America's first gilded age. Still more astonishing in that country's latest era of obscene excess, the Morgan has been doubled in size without losing its distinctive personality. The Renzo Piano Building Workshop has wrought its customary magic in weaving together old and new, strengthening the sense of ...
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