Misplaced Pages

#10989

64-548: By 1935 the quartet were featured in half-hour network radio programs. In March 1936, at the Cleveland Museum of Art , the quartet gave its first concert. In accord with their policy of emphasizing modern composers, the program included the Hindemith String Quartet No 4, and quartets by composers Quincy Porter and Normand Lockwood . By 1945, they had performed in over 70 radio programs and given 27 concerts at

128-540: A "signature style" beyond his allegiance to modernism and his "penchant for enclosing large spaces under glass, creating luminous interiors". In another Times article, the architect David Rockwell , who worked with him on several projects, most notably on a proposal for the rebuilding of the World Trade Center , recalled the team's vision of the twin towers reborn as a structure that spiraled defiantly skyward, "a filigreed weave of steel and air [that] would transform

192-609: A Master of Architecture (1969) from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism . In 1964, he formed an architectural firm in Buenos Aires with six associates ( Flora Manteola , Ignacio Petchersky, Javier Sánchez Gómez, Josefina Santos, and Justo Solsona). This practice, which came to be known as M/SG/S/S/S, or MSGSSS, would go on to become one of the largest architectural practices in South America, completing many significant commissions in

256-663: A blistering "death ray"—Volner suggested that his "attraction to ideas like transparency and simplicity trumped other, more quotidian considerations". Nonetheless, he applauded the architect's "commitment to making a more beautiful, more functional New York," singling out the elegant front of his athletics facility for Lehman College ("a nautiluslike curl of steel and glass") and his Spitzer School of Architecture at City College ("crisp and modest and clear") as exemplars of his sleek, modernist aesthetic. Fred A. Bernstein, writing in The New York Times , noted Viñoly's avoidance of

320-581: A community arts center in Cleveland's Clark-Fulton neighborhood. It hosts former Parade the Circle floats, displays and art that were previously in temporary storage. Wade Park includes an outdoor gallery displaying part of the museum's holdings in the Wade Park Fine Arts Garden. The bulk of this collection is located between the original 1916 main entrance to the building and the lagoon . Highlights of

384-458: A film series and the museum's Performing Arts Series, which brings the creative energies of internationally renowned artists into Cleveland. The department of education at CMA creates programs for lifelong learning from lectures, talks and studio classes to outreach programs and community events, such as Parade the Circle", Chalk Festival and the "Winter Lights Lantern Festival". Educational programs include distance learning, "Art to Go", and

448-539: A first in the United States. The quartet remained there until it disbanded in the late 1970s. In 1949, the quartet was selected by the civil affairs division of the U.S. war department to tour Austria and Germany, as well as Brussels, Amsterdam, Paris, and finally London, where they performed Quartet No.2 by Wallingford Riegger and Charles Ives 's Second String Quartet . The group premiered many 20th Century works including Elliott Carter 's String Quartet No. 1, which

512-725: A founder of a company in the United States." Major works by Viñoly include the Stavros Niarchos Foundation-David Rockefeller River Campus at Rockefeller University, 432 Park Avenue in Manhattan, 20 Fenchurch Street in London, the Curve Theatre Leicester, and Firstsite art gallery in Colchester, Essex. 20 Fenchurch Street in London won the 2015 Carbuncle Cup for its ugliness. Two of

576-419: A library of 10,000 volumes was to be assembled, to include photographs and archival works. By the 1950s, the collection of books alone had surpassed 37,000 and the photographic collection neared 47,000. By the 21st century, the library had more than 500,000 volumes (and 500,000 digitized slides); renovation of the library space was one of the focal points in the museum's $ 350 million expansion. Established in 1989,

640-604: A member of the Japan Institute of Architects and the Argentinian Sociedad Central de Arquitectos. Viñoly earned a reputation as "a serene functionalist and a master of institutional design", as an unbylined article in Metropolis put it, noting that "schools, civic buildings, convention centers , and the like have long been the mainstay of Viñoly's practice." "I'm very interested in unglamorousness!" he said, in

704-459: A museum store and other amenities. Viñoly covered the space created by the demolition of the 1958 and 1983 structures with a glass-roofed atrium. The east wing opened in 2009, and the north wing and atrium in 2012. The West Wing opened on January 2, 2014. The museum's building and renovation project, "Building for the Future", began in 2005 and was originally targeted for completion in 2012 (though it

SECTION 10

#1732923807011

768-522: A new concert grand piano design with a curved ergonomic keyboard that could facilitate easier access to the lowest and highest notes simultaneously. A foot longer than a typical concert grand and hosting no crossed strings, the Maene-Viñoly piano was completed in 2022 and premiered at the Verbier Festival played by Kirill Gerstein . In the months after Viñoly's death, the instrument was hosted at

832-540: A piano house for his collection of nine concert grand pianos ); and London. He also "remained connected to his home country, spending summers in Montevideo, and designing there as well," wrote Elizabeth Fazzare, in an obituary for Architectural Digest . "One of his most handsome recent projects is the Laguna Garzón Bridge, a circular road deck and pedestrian walkway whose design allows an eco-friendly crossing over

896-739: A provincial museum near Naples. In August 2023, the Antiquities Trafficking Unit of the New York City District Attorney’s office seized important ancient Roman bronze sculpture from the museum in connection with an investigation into looting and trafficking of ancient art at the site of the ancient Roman town of Bubon in Southwestern Turkey . The museum then sued in the Federal District Court in Ohio to block

960-529: A small collection of fine art photography, dating back to 1893. Of special note are pieces from photography's first contributors, particularly French, English, and American photographers. Other highlights of the collection are "photography with complete sets of The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis and Camera Work ; surrealist photography created primarily between the two world wars; and Cleveland-specific subject matter produced by regional and national photographers". An internationally renowned collection,

1024-679: A very short time. In 1978, Viñoly and his family relocated to the United States. For a brief period, he served as a guest lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Design . In 1979, he settled permanently in New York City where, in 1983, he founded the firm Rafael Viñoly Architects PC. His first major project in New York was the John Jay College of Criminal Justice , completed in 1988. In 1989, he won an international competition to design

1088-517: A year for purchase of works for its collections. The museum has also taken an active role in presenting music concerts and lectures. These include performances by Chanticleer (ensemble) , Roomful of Teeth , and John Luther Adams among others. In 2003 a controversy arose over The Aviator , a painting by Fernand Leger which had been owned by the German Jewish art dealer Alfred Flechtheim , due to an unexplained Nazi-era provenance gap. In 2013,

1152-477: Is available on a special section of the museum website. The museum reported attendance of 597,715 during the period between July 1, 2013, and June 30, 2014, the highest total in more than a decade. In 2018, the museum had a record 769,435 visitors, replacing the previous record of 719,620 in 1987. In 1958, a $ 35-million bequest by industrialist Leonard C. Hanna Jr. vaulted the Cleveland Museum of Art into

1216-529: Is concise, containing about 300 paintings and 90 sculptures. Major attractions in the collection include William Sideny Mount's The Power of Music , Frederich Edwin Church's Twilight in the Wilderness , and Albert Pinkham Ryder's The Racetrack (Death on a Pale Horse) . A number of Cleveland-based artists are also included in the museum's holdings, placing an emphasis on local art. The Cleveland Museum of Art contains

1280-456: Is installed at the top of the museum's main staircase. After being partially destroyed in a 1970 bombing (allegedly by the Weathermen ), the statue was never restored. Art historians knew that Rodin was involved in the original casting of this sculpture, and it was the last bronze casting of The Thinker made during Rodin's lifetime. The 1970 damage (noted on a plaque since mounted at the base of

1344-685: Is so unique and irreproducible.'" Noting the "astonishing" number of major projects he "left scattered across that island and its adjacent territories", most memorably the controversial supertall, super-skinny Midtown condo building (its width-to-height ratio is 1:16) at 432 Park Avenue, the design critic Ian Volner observed, "Anyone so frantically prolific was bound to run into the clothesline of public opinion at some point." Ticking off Viñoly's most problem-plagued buildings—his 20 Fenchurch Street tower in London and his Vdara resort complex in Las Vegas, whose glazed façades turned reflected sunlight into

SECTION 20

#1732923807011

1408-589: Is to create the sense of fame". Viñoly was married to the interior designer Diana Viñoly, whose aesthetic sensibility he once described as "mixed and unorthodox but never busy. There is a narrative to the objects she selects and each house is like a living thing. Nothing's ever composed, static, or finished. ... How she does it I don't know." Their son, Román Viñoly, is the director of Rafael Viñoly Architects. Viñoly also had two stepsons, Nicolas and Lucas Michael. The family lived in multiple locations: Tribeca , New York; Water Mill, Long Island (where Viñoly built

1472-468: The Bini , Congo, Senufo , and Yoruba peoples , mostly donated by Cleveland collector Katherine C. White. The museum is especially strong in the field of Asian art, possessing one of the best collections in the U.S. In June 2004, the museum acquired an ancient bronze sculpture of Apollo Sauroktonos , believed to be an original work by Praxiteles of Athens . Because the work has a contested provenance ,

1536-480: The Museum of Modern Art 's exhibition of models and drawings for the building while it was still under construction, the then New York Times architecture critic Herbert Muschamp hailed Viñoly's design as "a monument to the idea of openness" that "revives faith in architecture as an instrument of intellectual clarity". At the same time, some of his works have been widely panned, including one of his high-profile designs,

1600-780: The Tokyo International Forum , which was completed in 1996. His firm's design was one of the finalists in the World Trade Center design competition. During the course of his 40-plus year career, Viñoly practiced in the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Viñoly was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects , an International Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects , and

1664-710: The "Educator's Academy". The museum is also home to the Ingalls Library, one of the largest art museum libraries in the United States with over 500,000 volumes. In January 2019, the Cleveland Museum of Art announced that it was waiving its rights to "roughly 30,000 of the 61,328 objects in its permanent collection considered to be in the public domain". They are using the Creative Commons – Zero license for high-resolution images and data about its collection. Additionally, metadata for more than 61,000 pieces in its collection have been made available. The Open Access material

1728-511: The 1958 and 1983 additions were demolished. A new wrap-around building, and east and west wings were constructed. Designed by Rafael Viñoly , this $ 350 million project doubled the museum's size to 592,000 square feet (55,000 m ). To integrate the new east and west wings with the Breuer building to the north, a new structure was built along the south side of the 1971 addition, creating extensive new gallery space on two levels, as well as providing for

1792-462: The Decorative Art and Design collection "consists of useful objects in which the form and decoration are the primary focus, not objects intended purely as sculpture" In addition to its comprehensive collection of fine art, the Cleveland Museum of Art is also home to the Ingalls Library, one of the largest art libraries in the United States. As part of the initial 1913 plan by the museum's founders,

1856-463: The Museum Archives houses documentation about the Cleveland Museum of Art's role in the local community and the institutions the Cleveland Museum of Art has interacted with since its founding. The ARTLENS Gallery is a series of interactive displays and a mobile app that allow visitors to view and interact with the museum's digitized collection. ARTLENS is divided into four components: Following

1920-675: The UAE National News , applauded Viñoly's "affinity for the nerdy, workmanlike challenges of designing complex institutional architecture: hospitals, a nanosystems institute, a cancer research center. His buildings often seem designed not to be photographed from the air but to be used and experienced – from both the inside and out. And he displays the distinctly unstar-like habit of designing structures that respect their neighbors." As well, Gravois observed, he deplores "the insidiousness of contemporary architectural culture", singling out for criticism buildings "that tend to do only one thing, which

1984-583: The art of translation, or the conducting of Arturo Toscanini might form part of the table talk," wrote Louis Jebb, in The Art Newspaper . "The family moved to Buenos Aires when Rafael was five years old, after his father was invited to the city to direct Wagner's music drama Die Walküre at the city's Teatro Colón. Viñoly attended the University of Buenos Aires , receiving a Diploma in Architecture (1968) and

Walden String Quartet - Misplaced Pages Continue

2048-1015: The bronze was neither a recent discovery nor recovered from the sea. In 2008, the United States Postal Service selected the Cleveland Museum's famed Botticelli painting entitled Virgin and Child with the Young John the Baptist as the Christmas stamp for that year. The Cleveland Museum of Art's Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection holds pieces dating from 1800 to 1960, and contains about 537 pieces. The collection contains Impressionism and Post-impressionism works, avant-garde art styles, and German Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit art. This collection holds pieces dating from 1500 to 1800, with major works representing Italian Baroque, Spanish Baroque, Italian Renaissance, as well as significant French, British, and Dutch paintings. The collection

2112-529: The building opened, doubling the museum's floorspace. This addition, which was on the north side of the original building, was designed by the Cleveland architectural firm of Hayes and Ruth . They designed new gallery space and a new art library. The museum again expanded in 1971 with the opening of the North Wing. With its stepped, two-toned granite facade, the addition designed by modernist architect Marcel Breuer provided angular lines in distinct contrast with

2176-401: The center for trade to one of civics and culture"—a testimonial, Rockwell recalled, to "Rafael's love and belief in the power of beauty and culture." By contrast, Louis Jebb, writing in The Art Newspaper , focused on Viñoly's refusal to dismiss "nerdy", unglamorous projects as beneath him. "In an era when every 'starchitect' worth the name was chasing glamorous museum commissions, Viñoly

2240-470: The end, he said, "it does one thing. You walk [between the two embracing wings] overlooking the ocean. All of a sudden, you feel you are good. You feel somehow that something has touched you that has changed the plane of the experience. Being elevated. It's like late Rembrandt." Beyond his buildings, Viñoly's legacy in the field, according to the Uruguayan-American architect Amir Kripper, includes paving

2304-407: The environmentally sensitive 4,448-acre lagoon on the nation's coast." Viñoly died from an aneurysm in New York City on 2 March 2023. He was 78. New York magazine's Curbed site remembered Viñoly in its obituary as "prolific and polarizing", the quintessential New York architect, committed to the "'relatively small, rocky island,' as he once called it, 'with this urban experiment, which

2368-562: The flourishes of the 1916 building's neoclassical facade. The museum's main entrance was shifted to the North Wing. The auditorium, classrooms, and lecture halls were also moved into the North Wing, allowing their spaces in the Original Building to be renovated as gallery space. In 1983, a West Wing, designed by the Cleveland architectural firm of Dalton, van Dijk, Johnson, & Partners, was completed. This provided larger library space, as well as nine new galleries. Between 2001 and 2012,

2432-458: The hotel referred to the phenomenon as the "Vdara death ray". In London, sunlight reflecting off 20 Fenchurch Street during the summer of 2013 melted parts on a parked Jaguar and scorched the carpet of a nearby barber shop. 432 Park Avenue has been the subject of numerous lawsuits and complaints regarding flooding, electrical problems, and excess building sway. A serious amateur pianist, Viñoly collaborated with piano builder Chris Maene on

2496-561: The kind of attention normally reserved for our soccer players who emigrated to Europe to play in the English Premier, Spanish, or Italian Leagues," he wrote. Later, Kripper worked with Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti (former classmates of Viñoly's) at Machado and Silvetti Associates (now Machado Silvetti ) in Boston. "Our shared connection with Viñoly was an additional, beneficial layer to our rapport, and once again I found myself inspired by

2560-421: The launch of ARTLENS, the Cleveland Museum of Art conducted a two-year study to see how the gallery impacts visitor engagement. Surveys from November 2017 and January 2018 of 438 ARTLENS visitors found that 76% of viewers felt that the gallery "enhanced their overall museum experience"; 74% felt that it "encouraged them to look closely at art and notice new things"; and 73% said that it "increased their interest in

2624-602: The most was the Philadelphian magus Louis Kahn ": In a 2021 interview [...] Viñoly spoke about Kahn's celebrated Salk Institute building in La Jolla, California (1962-65), founded by Jonas Salk , the celebrated developer of a successful polio vaccine. First, Viñoly noted, the Salk Institute is a great laboratory—one where ground-breaking research in molecular biology is still done 60 years on. The acid functional test. But, at

Walden String Quartet - Misplaced Pages Continue

2688-503: The museum announced that it would pay the heirs of Arthur Feldmann in order to keep a drawing confiscated from him by the Nazis before they killed him in the Holocaust . The drawing was Allegory of Christian Faith , by the 17th century German artist Johann Liss In 2017, the museum announced that it would return to Italy an ancient Roman marble portrait head of Drusus Minor stolen in 1944 from

2752-589: The museum continues to study the dating and attribution of the sculpture. In 2011, Michael Bennet, the Greek and Roman arts curator, announced that he had dated the piece to 350 B.C. to 250 B.C. In 2013, the museum held a focus exhibition on the statue. It announced reattribution of the work as Apollo the Python-Slayer , and said that the statue was almost certainly an original work by Praxiteles himself, and that laboratory investigations and expert testimony conclusively show

2816-695: The museum's atrium can be seen as the "lobby" for the Washington, D.C. -based government organization. The outside of the museum and elevator tower are in other shots as well. Rafael Vi%C3%B1oly Rafael Viñoly Beceiro (1 June 1944 – 2 March 2023) was an Uruguayan-born architect based in New York. He was the principal of Rafael Viñoly Architects, which he founded in 1983. The firm has offices in New York City, Palo Alto , London, Manchester , Abu Dhabi , and Buenos Aires . Viñoly designed landmark buildings internationally. Viñoly rose to international prominence with his Tokyo International Forum . Reviewing

2880-478: The museum's collection." Museum visitors born between 1981 and 1996 were 15% more likely to visit the gallery compared to older individuals. The ARTLENS system also gathers analytical data; the time patrons spent looking at artworks went from an average of two-to-three seconds to fifteen seconds. The Cleveland Museum of Art also maintains a schedule of special exhibitions, lectures, films and musical programs. The department of performing arts, music and film hosts

2944-462: The museum. The quartet had several affiliations with educational institutions. For a while they were known as the "Walden Quartet of Cleveland College", referring to the adult education campus of Western Reserve University. In 1946 they became quartet-in-residence at Cornell University . The next year, following the move of Cornell's head of music to the University of Illinois , they became quartet-in-residence at that school with academic appointments,

3008-407: The possibilities of stepping beyond cultural background, country of birth, and language, solely based on the work," wrote Kripper. He would go on to found Kripper Studio, a minority-owned architecture firm in Boston. "Viñoly was a bridge and an open door to the fact that ... a person with a clearly different name, with an accent included, could become an architect, an entrepreneur, a businessperson, and

3072-474: The public on June 6, 1916, with Wade's grandson, Jeptha H. Wade II, proclaiming it, "for the benefit of all people, forever". Wade, like his grandfather, had a great interest in art and served as the museum's first vice-president; in 1920 he became its president. Today, the park, with the museum still as its centerpiece, is on the National Register of Historic Places . In March 1958, the first addition to

3136-550: The public sculpture include the large cast of Chester Beach 's 1927 Fountain of the Waters ; a monument to the Polish expatriate and American Revolutionary War -hero Tadeusz Kościuszko ; and the 1928 bronze statuary sundial by Frank Jirouch, Night Passing the Earth to Day , which sits across Wade Lagoon from the museum, near the park's entrance on Euclid Avenue. Auguste Rodin 's The Thinker

3200-458: The public that the increase in quality would be worth both the wait and expense. In June 2008, after being closed for nearly three years for the overhaul, the museum reopened 19 of its permanent galleries to the public in the renovated 1916 building main floor. On June 27, 2009, the newly constructed East Wing (which contains the Impressionist, Contemporary, and Modern art collections) opened to

3264-485: The public. On June 26, 2010, the ground level of the 1916 building reopened. It now houses the collections of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Sub-Saharan African, Byzantine, and Medieval art. The expanded museum includes enhanced visitor amenities, such as new restrooms, an expanded store and café, a sit-down gourmet restaurant, parking capacity increased to 620 spaces, and a 34,000 square feet (3,200 m ) glass-covered courtyard. On June 12, 2021, Cleveland Museum of Art opened

SECTION 50

#1732923807011

3328-516: The public. With a $ 920 million endowment (2023), it is the fourth-wealthiest art museum in the United States . With about 770,000 visitors annually (2018), it is one of the most visited art museums in the world . The Cleveland Museum of Art was founded as a trust in 1913 with an endowment from prominent Cleveland industrialists Hinman Hurlbut , John Huntington , and Horace Kelley . The neoclassical, white Georgian Marble , Beaux-Arts building

3392-523: The ranks of the country's richest art museums. Today, the museum receives operating support from the Ohio Arts Council through state tax dollars. It is also funded by Cuyahoga County residents through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. The museum derives around two thirds of its $ 36 million budget from interest on its endowment, which was reported as $ 750 million in 2014. The museum has an acquisition fund of $ 277 million, from which it draws about $ 13 million

3456-404: The same article. "People don't understand how important this kind of thing" – the human use of buildings, as opposed to architecture as monumental sculpture – "is. If you remember, 10, 15 years ago, if you weren't working on a museum you weren't an architect. With hospitals, that level of snobbism would never have been applicable—nobody gives a royal screw about that stuff". John Gravois, writing in

3520-615: The seizure, and while other looted works from other museums were returned to Turkey in December, the sculpture remained in the U.S. while the legal process continued. The museum is the stand-in for the fictional S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and can be extensively seen in several office and establishing shots of the 2014 film Captain America: The Winter Soldier . In several scenes,

3584-658: The skyscrapers designed by Viñoly, the Vdara in Las Vegas and 20 Fenchurch Street in London, have experienced sun reflectivity problems as a result of their concave curved glass exteriors, which act as cylindrical and spherical reflectors, respectively. In 2010, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that sunlight reflecting off the Vdara's south-facing tower could make swimmers in the hotel pool uncomfortably warm and had been known to melt plastic cups and shopping bags; employees of

3648-466: The so-called " Walkie-Talkie ," which detractors dubbed the "Walkie Scorchy." It was named this after it focused light from the sun to a point and melted peoples' cars on August 30, 2013. Viñoly was born in Montevideo , Uruguay , on 1 June 1944, to Román Viñoly Barreto , a film and theater director, and Maria Beceiro, a math teacher. "It was a cultivated household where the architecture of Le Corbusier,

3712-1421: The statue's pedestal) is considered to have made this casting unique among the more than twenty original large castings of this work. The Cleveland Museum of Art divides its collections into 16 departments, including Chinese Art, Modern European Art, African Art, Drawings, Prints, European Art, Textiles and Islamic Art, American Painting and Sculpture, Greek and Roman Art, Contemporary Art, Medieval Art, Decorative Art and Design, Pre-Columbian and Native North American Art, Japanese and Korean Art, Indian and Southeast Asian Art, and Photography. Artists represented by significant works include Olivuccio di Ciccarello , Botticelli , Giambattista Pittoni , Caravaggio , El Greco , Poussin , Rubens , Frans Hals , Richard Hunt , Gerard David , Goya , J. M. W. Turner , Dalí , Matisse , Renoir , Gauguin ( The Call ), Frederic Edwin Church , Thomas Cole , Corot , Thomas Eakins , Monet , Vincent van Gogh , Picasso , and George Bellows . The museum has been active recently in acquiring later 20th-century art, having added important works by Warhol , Jackson Pollock , Christo , Anselm Kiefer , Ronald Davis , Larry Poons , Leon Kossoff , Jack Whitten , Morris Louis , Jules Olitski , Chuck Close , Robert Mangold , Ching Ho Cheng , Mark Tansey and Sol LeWitt , among others. The museum's African art collection consists of 300 traditional, sub-Saharan works from

3776-581: The way "for architects coming to the U.S. from South America and getting major projects and recognition." In an Architect's Newspaper article headlined "Rafael Viñoly, who died in March, remains an inspiration to Latino/a architects in the United States," Kripper recalled "being mesmerized," as an undergraduate at the School of Architecture at Universidad de la República Uruguay, by photos of Viñoly's Tokyo International Forum. The Uruguayan architect "immediately received

3840-414: Was constructed on the southern edge of Wade Park, at the cost of $ 1.25 million. Wade Park and the museum were designed by the local architectural firm, Hubbell & Benes , with the museum planned as the park's centerpiece. The 75-acre (300,000 m ) green space takes its name from philanthropist Jeptha H. Wade , who donated part of his wooded estate to the city in 1881. The museum opened its doors to

3904-566: Was dedicated to them. Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art ( CMA ) is an art museum in Cleveland , Ohio, United States. Located in the Wade Park District of University Circle , the museum is internationally renowned for its substantial holdings of Asian and Egyptian art and houses a diverse permanent collection of more than 61,000 works of art from around the world. The museum provides free general admission to

SECTION 60

#1732923807011

3968-429: Was just as happy to be recognized for his work with laboratories, hospitals and universities," wrote Jebb. "The architects he most admired included, historically, Andrea Palladio , and in the modern era Oscar Niemeyer , creator of Brasília , and the minimalist master Mies van der Rohe , whose Seagram Building (completed 1958) was Viñoly's favorite in New York. But the forebear whose buildings appeared to have moved him

4032-430: Was not completed until 2013) at projected costs of $ 258 million. The museum celebrated the official completion of the renovation and expansion project with a grand opening celebration held on December 31, 2013, and additional activities that continued through the first week of 2014. The $ 350 million project—two-thirds of which was earmarked for the complete renovation of the original 1916 structure—added two new wings, and

4096-423: Was the largest cultural project in Ohio's history. The new east and west wings, as well as the enclosing of the atrium courtyard under a soaring glass canopy, have brought the museum's total floor space to 592,000 square feet (55,000 m ) (an increase of approximately 65%). The first phase of the project had $ 9.3 million in cost overruns; the opening was delayed by 9 months. Museum director Timothy Rub assured

#10989