Museum of American Art: Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective. Whitney Museum Unveils New Designs, Divorces the High Line! - Mindboggling Reveals. The Whitney Museum, semi-flush after the sale of some properties uptown, is prepping to break ground on May 24th for the new museum set to rise next to the High Line in the Meatpacking District.
The museum crew, headed by Whitney director Adam Weinberg, gathered with locals last night to show off the latest revised designs for the Whitney Downtown. Plans from Italian starchitect Renzo Piano call for loads of glass down low along Gansevoort Street, where a 14,000-square-foot plaza Largo (in Piano-speak) stretches towards the Hudson River. And that's just the beginning, art fans. The museum lobby will be fronted by glass on three sides, with uninterrupted views from Washington Street all the way to Weehawken and points westward. A theater with convertible seating is tucked into the second floor, where performers will be backed by vistas towards the river.
The World Trade Center Site Over 55 Years | PBS NewsHour | Sept. 10, 2010. New Skyscraper Museum Exhibit Shows Off World's Tallest Buildings. When it first opened in 1931, the Empire State Building was the tallest tower in the world. But as a new exhibtion in the Skyscraper Museum shows, it's anything but lonely at the top. To view our videos, you need to enable JavaScript. Learn how . install Adobe Flash 9 or above. Then come back here and refresh the page. There's tall and then there's "supertall," a new way to define a class of buildings scaling extraordinary heights.
"Supertall! " "After 9/11 there was, of course, such trauma and so many people projected and predicted that there would be no more skyscrapers. As the exhibition shows through renderings, models and photographs, by 2016 the United States will be home to only five supertalls in total, compared to 11 in the Middle East and 20 in China. "Chinese cities are under going tremendous urbanization and modernization, and with 1.3 billion people in China, it's the demand that's driving this construction," says Willis. Learn more at "Supertall! " Interactive Guide to Islamic Art Galleries at Met - Interactive Feature.