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photo: Carol M. Highsmith
The history of the design of the Met complex reads like a who’s who of American architecture. The original building by Calvert Vaux was Gothic in conception. Richard Morris Hunt designed the central, Fifth Avenue, Beaux-Arts façade (1902). The wings of the same façade are by McKim, Mead & White (1906). Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo Associates oversaw a massive expansion of the museum in the 1970s and 1980s.
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I guess no one notices that the main facade was never finish (blocks still exist where huge statues were supposed to be sculpted).
Posted by Anonymous | February 9, 2007 1:05 AM
Posted on February 9, 2007 01:05