Swiss architect Herzog & de Meuron and New York’s PBDW Architects have been chosen to renovate 945 Madison Avenue in New York Metropolis into the headquarters of artwork dealer Sotheby’s.
That deal with is often known as the Breuer Constructing, after architect Marcel Breuer, who designed the seven-storey brutalist construction that opened in 1966 and beforehand served as a department gallery for the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork and the Whitney.
Herzog & de Meuron intention to reinstate the architect’s imaginative and prescient, whereas adapting the 7,138 sq m constructing to Sotheby’s wants, together with including a gallery area, public sale rooms, exhibition areas for a number of collections and a restaurant.
Jacques Herzog, Herzog & de Meuron’s co-founder, stated: “The Breuer Constructing is a tremendous architectural icon of postwar modernism which we – like all architects – have at all times admired.
“We’ve at all times positioned nice significance on working with present buildings, not solely from a sustainability perspective but in addition as a acutely aware engagement with buildings from one other period that must be ready for the long run – catering to completely different customers and programmes.”
Work on the mission is because of start subsequent 12 months.
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