Structure Type: built works - exhibition buildings - museums

Designers: Gehry Partners, LLP (firm); Frank Owen Gehry (architect)

Dates: constructed 1928

total floor area: 110,000 sq. ft.

Alteration

Between 2017 and 2021, Frank Gehry supervised remodeling of and addition to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. New York Times writer Tanya Mohn said of this renovation in 2021: "The museum has undergone a $233 million interior transformation under the direction fo the renowned architect Frank Gehry. Construction ehich began four years ago, involved most of the 90,000 square feet of the redesign, including two new 10,000-foot wings, eah with eight generously proportioned galleries." (See Tanya Mohn, "A New Look," New York Times, 05/23/2021, Special Museums Section, p. 26.)

PCAD id: 24012