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Gehry’s Quiet Interventions Reshape the Philadelphia Museum No billowing sails of glass or glimmering titanium in the renovation of the museum’s Beaux-Arts home. Equally surprising are several new shows and the American galleries. Gehry Partners reestablished the vaulted walkway, left, a Guastavino-tiled corridor spanning the length of the main building, as a main access in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.  The Piranesian switchback staircase, right,  is Gehry’s “only concession to showiness,” our critic says.Credit...Steve Hall, via Philadelphia Museum of Art Ma...

The North Vaulted Walkway, facing north - Steve Hall, 2021. Image © Hall + Merrick Photographers The scope of the Core Project was to preserve the historic exterior of the building while improving the museum's exhibition capabilities by returning underutilized back-of-house spaces to public use. The design comprises nearly 90,000 square feet of renovated or newly created space. Of the latter, William Forum will serve as the venue for a wide range of activities while also connecting the ground floor to the upper levels. The Vaulted Walkway, spanning the entire length of the building, has been...

WHYY By Redesigned Lenfest Hall at the Philadelphia Museum of Art West Entrance opens onto a soaring event space and new galleries. (Emma Lee/WHYY) For decades, the Philadelphia Museum of Art has known it needed more space. Recently, architect Frank Gehry helped them realize they had the space they needed the whole time. About 90,000 square feet has been carved out of what used to be staff office space and a vaulted corridor running underground for 640 feet, spanning the entire footprint of the museum, unused for nearly 50 years. This weekend, the museum unveils its “Core Project,” a majo...

Philadelphia Museum of Art Opens New Galleries and Public Spaces in Major Renovation May 06, 2021 20:46 Subject Line Please provide verification code Email is invalid Lenfest Hall, facing East toward the Forum (below), the Great Stair Hall (above) - On view- Generation, 1988, Martin Puryear - Steve Hall © Hall + Merrick Photographers, 2021 Philadelphia Museum of Art On May 7, 2021, the Philadelphia Museum of Art unveils to the public the culmination of two decades of planning, design, and construction: a project by the celebrated architect Frank Gehry that represents a major milestone in t...

The Williams Forum at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, looking west into Lenfest Hall from the ground level. The architect Frank Gehry demolished a former auditorium and replaced it with a dramatic 40ft-high open space Photo: Elizabeth Leitzell; courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Enlisting the creativity of Frank Gehry, the Philadelphia Museum of Art has completed a $233m renovation and reorganisation of the lower interior spaces at the heart of its landmarked 1928 Beaux-Arts building. The latest phase of a master plan for improvements that was approved by the museu...