The Kimbell Art Museum expansion project is finally moving forward. On May 27, the institution unveiled Renzo Piano's final design for a $70 million building adjacent to Louis Kahn’s masterpiece. The concrete and glass pavilion will double the museum’s gallery space while allowing it to reserve the original building for its renowned permanent collection.
The museum first proposed an expansion 21 years ago, but it generated such a Vesuvius of critical and popular protest—too big, too intrusive, programmatically unjustified—that the idea was scrapped.
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