This fall a gleaming new cultural institution takes its place on the Grand Concourse in The Bronx and on the New York cityscape as a distinctive contemporary landmark. Rising above the boulevard like an architectural origami of metal and light, the new main building of the Bronx Museum of the Arts represents the return of a cosmopolitan ideal so central to New York’s identity.

Already the flagship cultural institution of the Bronx, The Bronx Museum of the Arts nearly doubles in size with this facility, gaining a major new gallery for temporary loan exhibitions and expanded space for educational programs and public gatherings.

The new museum space is designed by the internationally renowned New York and Miami-based architecture firm Arquitectonica, which has received three design awards for the project, its first cultural commission in New York City.

July 21, 2006 Press Release
The Bronx Museum of the Arts Architecture Fact Sheet

 




Architectural Views of the North Wing Building