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News: the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to reconsider its decision to demolish the former American Folk Art Museum next door following an outcry from architects, conservationists and critics.

In a board meeting yesterday, the museum’s directors heard that design studio Diller Scofidio & Renfro had been selected to oversee MoMA’s expansion and explore the option of integrating the former American Folk Art Museum into the plans.

Glenn D. Lowry, MoMA’s director, told trustees and staff that the architects wanted to consider “the entirety of the site, including the former American Folk Art Museum building, in devising an architectural solution to the inherent challenges of the project.”

Diller Scofidio & Renfro said the institution’s directors had given the design team “the time and flexibility to explore a full range of programmatic, spatial and urban options.”

“These possibilities include, but are not limited to, integrating the former American Folk Art Museum building, designed by our friends and admired colleagues, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien,” the studio said in a statement.

MoMA had planned to demolish the neighbouring building and replace it with a glass-fronted structure linking the art museum’s existing space on West 53rd Street with a planned 82-storey tower designed by French architect Jean Nouvel.

In its initial announcement last month, museum officials said the bronze-clad building had to be pulled down because its facade did not match MoMA’s glass aesthetic and its floors would not line up with MoMA’s.

Designed by US architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, the American Folk Art Museum opened its doors just 12 years ago but was sold to MoMA in 2011 to pay off a $32 million loan.

The museum’s collection of paintings, sculptures and crafts by self-taught and outsider artists now resides at a smaller site on Lincoln Square, further north in Manhattan.

MoMA’s initial decision to tear down the building was met with disappointment by Tsien, who told the New York Times it was “a loss for architecture”.

Later this year MoMA will host a major retrospective of the work of modernist architect Le Corbusier – see all news about MoMA and see more architecture in New York.

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Découverte de ce concept et de cette série photo en noir et blanc durant 36 années du visage des 4 sœurs. Un travail illustrant le temps qui passe par le photographe Nicholas Nixon, extrait du livre « The Brown Sisters » édité par le MoMA. Voici les clichés de 1975 à 2010 dans la suite, afin de suivre l’évolution.

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News: the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to raze the former American Folk Art Museum next door just 12 years after its completion by US architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien.

The bronze-clad museum, which opened its doors in December 2001, will be demolished and replaced with a glass-fronted building linking MoMA’s existing space on West 53rd Street with a planned 82-storey tower designed by French architect Jean Nouvel.

The American Folk Art Museum, which holds a collection of paintings, sculptures and crafts by self-taught and outsider artists, was sold to MoMA in 2011 to pay off a $32 million loan. It currently exists at a smaller site on Lincoln Square, further north in Manhattan.

While the MoMA director Glenn D. Lowry said the demolition was not a comment on the architectural quality of the building, the news was met with disappointment by Tsien, who told the New York Times she saw the building as a “beloved small child”.

“It’s a kind of loss for architecture,” she said, “because it’s a special building, a kind of small building that’s crafted, that’s particular and thoughtful at a time when so many buildings are about bigness.”

The expansion across both the folk art museum site and the Nouvel building will provide MoMA with approximately 4600 square metres of additional floor space.

When Nouvel’s tower is complete in 2017 or 2018, its second, fourth and fifth floors will line up with the same levels in MoMA’s existing building over the road, but the art museum is still deciding what to put at ground level on the site of Williams and Tsien’s building.

In January this year, the architects’ Barnes Foundation art gallery in Philadelphia won an Institute Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects.

A major retrospective of the work of modernist architect Le Corbusier opens at MoMA this June – see all news about MoMA and see more architecture in New York.

Photograph by Dan Nguyen.

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News: American studio CODA has won this year’s MoMA/PS1 Young Architects Program competition and will insert a wall made from skateboard offcuts into the courtyard of the PS1 Contemporary Art Centre in New York.

The Young Architects Program is an annual contest organised by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) that invites emerging studios to propose a temporary installation that can host the summer events of the PS1 Contemporary Art Centre.

CODA‘s winning proposal, entitled Party Wall, is for a linear structure that will incorporate events spaces, seating areas, stages and projections areas, as well as pools of water that will function as “cooling stations”.

The installation will have a steel frame weighted down by a system of water-filled polyester pillows. More water will stream along the top of the wall, turning the structure into a large fountain, and clouds of mist will be generated from the water to cool down visitors during the hot summer season.

The interlocking cladding panels will be made from wooden offcuts donated by a skateboard manufacturer and some of them will be removable and used to build tables and benches.

“CODA’s proposal was selected because of its clever identification and use of locally available resources – the waste products of skateboard-making – to make an impactful and poetic architectural statement within MoMA PS1’s courtyard,” said MoMA curator Pedro Gadanho. “Party Wall arches over the various available spaces, activating them for different purposes, while making evident that even the most unexpected materials can always be reinvented to originate architectural form and its ability to communicate with the public.”

PS1 director Klaus Biesenbach added: “CODA developed an outstanding, iconic design that will support the many social functions connected to our large-scale group exhibition EXPO 1: New York, while creating a unique and stunning object for our outdoor galleries.”

CODA is an experimental design and research studio led by architect and university professor Caroline O’Donnell.

Party Wall is set to open in Long Island City at the end of June.

At Ps1 last year HWKN created a giant blue spiky sculpture that helped to clean the air, which has since been relocated to Abu Dhabi. Other installations at the gallery include a twisted rope canopy and a set of swinging poles.

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Here’s the full press release:

CODA selected as winner of the 2013 Young Architects Program AT MoMA PS1 in New York

CODA’S Party Wall to Provide the Setting for the Warm Up Summer Music Series in the Courtyard of MoMA PS1

The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 announce CODA (Caroline O’Donnell, Ithaca, NY) as the winner of the annual Young Architects Program (YAP) in New York. Now in its 14th edition, the Young Architects Program at MoMA and MoMA PS1 is committed to offering emerging architectural talent the opportunity to design and present innovative projects, challenging each year’s winners to develop creative designs for a temporary, outdoor installation at MoMA PS1 that provides shade, seating, and water. The architects must also work within guidelines that address environmental issues, including sustainability and recycling. CODA, drawn from among five finalists, will design a temporary urban landscape for the 2013 Warm Up summer music series in MoMA PS1’s outdoor courtyard.

The winning project, Party Wall, opening at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City in late June, is a pavilion and flexible experimental space that uses its large-scale, linear form to provide shade for the Warm Up crowds, in addition to other functions.

The porous façade is affixed to a tall self-supporting steel frame that is balanced in place with large fabric containers filled with water, and clad with a screen of interlocking wooden elements donated by Comet, an Ithaca-based manufacturer of eco-friendly skateboards.

The lower portion of the Party Wall’s façade is capable of shedding its “exterior,” as 120 panels can be detached from the structure and used as benches and communal tables during Warm Up and other diverse events and programs such as lectures, classes, performances, and film screenings.

A shallow stage of reclaimed wood weaves around Party Wall’s base to create a series of micro-stages for performances of varying types and scales. At various locations under the structure, pools of water serve as refreshing cooling stations that can also be covered to provide additional staging space or a shaded area from the direct sunlight.

Party Wall’s steel-angle structure is ballasted by water-filled “pillows” made of polyester base fabric that will be lit at night to produce a luminous effect. Party Wall acts as an aqueduct by carrying a stream of water along the top of the structure. The water is projected from the structure, via a pressure-tank, into a fountain that feeds a misting station and a series of pools.

The other finalists for this year’s MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program were Leong Architects (New York, NY, Dominic Leong, Chris Leong); Moorhead & Moorhead (New York, NY, Granger Moorhead, Robert Moorehead); TempAgency (Charlottesville, VA, and Brooklyn, NY, Leena Cho, Rychlee Espinosa, Matthew Jull, Seth McDowell); and French 2D (Boston, MA, and Syracuse, NY, Anda French, Jenny French).

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