New Museum

Sanaa – New York City

The New Museum of Contemporary art is an urban infill in Downtown Manhattan. Given such a dense urban setting, stacking museum spaces might easily have led to an introverted mass, but by shifting the volumes in relation to each other the building opens up and therefore also starts to interact with its surroundings.

Architects: Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa

This shifting allows for skylights, terraces, and variation, all while maximizing wall space and keeping within the zoned building envelope. As the relation between core and envelope vary, different lighting conditions and proportions arise.