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Cleveland: “preview” of Viñoly’s Art Museum
With a 225 million dollar budget, a hall which it is claimed will be bigger than the one at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the biggest reception space in the city – able to hold up to 2000 people standing and 500 seated – the Cleveland Art Museum is expanding in style.
Over thirty years after the last intervention to extend the museum, carried out by Marcel Breuer, it is now the turn of Rafael Viñoly who was appointed a year ago to increase the building by 43 percent. The New York architect will add two large curved wings to the east and west sides of the museum, framing a vast central glazed courtyard. A model of the scheme is on display at the museum whilst a public discussion with the architect is planned for the beginning of February next year. To see the final result though, you need to wait until 2009.
