New Museum of Contemporary Art / OMA

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Text description provided by the architects.Our first cultural institution inNew Yorkis anew addition to the New Museumnext door to its iconic SANAA-designed building at 235 Bowery. The New Museum has been growing in visitors, exhibitions, and activities. Its diverse engagements, including its expansive education programs, its cultural incubator NEW INC, and, of course, its globally recognized exhibition program have been transforming the institution into a cultural laboratory. We were asked to add a new building that provides much-needed space for its expanded activities and simultaneously reflects increasingly public ambitions—duplicating the program and square footage on a site immediately adjacentto the existing SANAA-designed building—part and counterpart, side-by-side.