Jan 14, 2014
MoMA’s Plan to Demolish Folk Art Museum Lacb*'
MoMA’s Plan to Demolish Folk Art Museum Lacks Vision New York Times - Buildings around the Museum of Modern Art, shown in 1939, have fallen to accommodate expansion, changing the scale of West 53rd Street. Andreas Feininger/Museum of Modern Art Last year, the Museum of Modern Art caused a ruckus with a plan to raze its neighbor, the former American Folk Art Museum building, designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien. So MoMA trustees hired the architecture firm Diller Scofidio & Renfro to explore alternatives to demolition that would still permit expansion. [Zite logo]
