THE DAY MOMA DIED

摘要

The museum of modern art in New York has announced that it will demolish Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects' American Folk Art Museum by the end of the year. The museum (MoMA) bought the neighboring West 53rd Street building in 2011. The plan is to replace it with new galleries, which will link to yet more exhibition space in the base of a proposed mixed-use high-rise designed by Jean Nouvel for Hines, the development firm. No architect has been chosen to design the replacement, but it is difficult to imagine that MoMA will gain a finer work of museum architecture than the one that they are going to tear down.