The greatest work of art at New Haven’s Yale Center for British Art is arguably the landmark building itself—and Louis Kahn’s last structure is due to reopen this month after a 16-month renovation of its public galleries and lecture hall, and an upgrade of its accessibility, security, mechanical and electrical systems. This is the third phase of a $33m conservation project that began in 2008. — theartnewspaper.com
"George Knight of Knight Architecture, who led the conservation work, says: “The thing that kept me up at night was [thinking] how can we preserve the building, which is so architecturally rich, and do all this surgery so as not to disfigure the patient in any way?""
All images courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art.
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The Ford Foundation should have hired these guys to do the renovation and upgrades at their building.
The Yale Center for British art is an excellent space to view this collection which is often so ornate and intricate that having the crisp austere visual rest in the ceilings floors and walls is very nice. One of my favorite museum buildings. So glad that it has been carefully restored.
Peter N
I find this design hard to comprehend. There's not a single parametrically derived swoop in sight. Pretty nice, though.
sploosh.
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