| Abstract: | When Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, now of the Tokyo-based firm SANAA (Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates), were selected to design the New Museum of Contemporary Art in 2002, they seemed an interesting but strange choice, since the cutting-edge museum was moving to the Bowery, an area known more for its down-and-out residents than its art-world glamour. But, as Jayne Merkel explains, the architects have managed to produce a building that is both rough and ready and beyond the fray. It is already a rather mysterious landmark rising several double-height storeys above its gritty neighbours. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
