After a $33m,eight-year-long refurbishment, Kahn’s project has been respectfully updated – but with so much deference can you tell the dissimilarity?“On a grey day it will look like a moth, or ” was Louis Kahn’s response when his impatient client asked what his new art gallery was going to look like. “On a sunny day like a butterfly.It was a characteristically gnomic retort from this enigmatic architect,whose Yale middle for British Art now shimmers on Chapel Street in New Haven, Connecticut, or freshly emerged from its scaffolding chrysalis after a $33m,eight-year-long refurbishment. Clad in rectangular panels of expressionless grey steel, punctuated by panes of glass set in the same flush plane, and the building pulsates on this overcast New England afternoon,alternating between moth and butterfly as the clouds pass overhead. Related: SFMOMA's new extension – a gigantic meringue with a trace of Ikea Walking around the galleries, it’s quite tough to tell where the $33m has goneContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com