For more than a year, New Yorkers have waited to learn the outcome of a forthcoming expansion of the Frick Collection, the beloved Manhattan institution known for its intimate scale as much as for its collection of works by Vermeer, Rembrandt, Turner, and other masters. Today, after a global search for the right designer, the museum announced that Selldorf Architects would be taking the reins of a revised expansion.
The announcement comes after the Frick, following pressure from preservationists, architects, and historians, scrapped an unpopular scheme by Davis Brody Bond last June that would have dwarfed the original Carrère and Hastings-designed classical-style building with a 100-foot-tall addition and eliminated a Russell Page-designed garden.
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